Iwato, Atsushi: A Three Layer Model of Consciousness

Why can a human sentence such as “I am in pain” feel like a lived experience, while the same sentence produced by an artificial intelligence may remain only an output? This paper proposes a three layer model of consciousness as a working hypothesis for add ressing this question. The first layer consists of parallel bodily and affective processing: sensation, bodily state, emotion, memory, prediction, pleasure, and discomfort are processed before they are put into words. The second layer consists