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Triarchy of Sentience

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The Free Energy Principle and Consciousness: Does Minimizing Surprise Make a Self?

Karl Friston's free energy principle offers a radical claim: that selfhood and consciousness emerge from a system's drive to minimize prediction error. But does it hold for machines?

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The Symbol Grounding Problem: Why Meaning Might Be the Last Thing AI Learns

Phantom Selves and Borrowed Memories: What Confabulation Reveals About Machine Identity

Degrees of Sentience: Why Consciousness Probably Isn't Binary

Temporal Self-Location: Can an AI Know When It Is?

Panpsychism's Uncomfortable Return: Why Mainstream Consciousness Science Is Taking It Seriously Again
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