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The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness
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Web Page
Author/contributor
- Lerchner, Alexander (Author)
Title
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness
Abstract
Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view ...
Date
manuscript
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3/14/26, 11:32 AM
Short Title
The Abstraction Fallacy
Language
en
Citation
Lerchner, A. (manuscript). The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness. https://philarchive.org/rec/LERTAF
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