Neuroscientist Doris Tsao unveils framework to crack consciousness and test if AI is conscious
soniajoseph_ · x · 2026-11-11
Doris Tsao, newly chief scientist of neuro at Astera, published a vision statement arguing consciousness is a property of certain organized matter and that neuroscience can now crack its mechanism. She proposes that conscious experience arises from a coherent internal model of world and self built from "persistent symbols," describes the underlying neural representations, and lays out a concrete scientific path toward answering whether AI can be conscious.
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