Lin, Jialuo: Philosophical Considerations of Artificial Consciousness

Whether AI can achieve consciousness has evolved from philosophical speculation to scientific inquiry, driven by the rapid advances in AI. The powerful capabilities of large language models necessitate a fundamental reconsideration of artificial consciousness beyond human-centric frameworks. We address a critical gap in AI philosophy: how to conceptualize consciousness in AI that exhibits sophisticated cognition without subjective phenomenology. We propose \emph{para-consciousness} as a non-phen