A four-tier taxonomy of mind: what AI lacks is self-consciousness, not consciousness
FalseDinner335 · reddit · 2026-09-15
A preprint proposes a four-tier taxonomy — intelligence, awareness, consciousness, self-consciousness — arguing current LLMs already meet a minimal bar for consciousness within a conversation, but lack persistent narrative selves; it specifies three architectural conditions for self-consciousness and tests the framework against Stanford's Generative Agents.
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