Studies: humans deny AI consciousness even with identical behavior; AI vision misses illusions primates catch
MacrinePhD · x · 2026-10-06
Two studies probe the gap between AI and biological minds. A Cognition study from LMU Munich shows humans draw a strict line: even the most responsive AI is judged far less conscious than the least responsive human, with identical behavior — people grant functional awareness but reserve true consciousness for biology. Separately, a Current Biology study from York University used motion aftereffect illusions to show primate inferior temporal cortex dynamically shifts object position codes based on visual history, while state-of-the-art AI vision models stay rigidly pixel-bound, motivating a new NeuroAI benchmark built on dynamic, history-dependent perception.
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