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Consciousness needs a subject

Resource type
Journal Article
Authors/contributors
Title
Consciousness needs a subject
Abstract
To be conscious is to be an experiencing subject. This can be defined not in terms of computational functions or particular biological substrates, but rather in terms of relations: between subject and world, between parts of the subject, and through time. These kinds of relations – comprising a conscious mode of being – may well be implementable in artificial systems.
Publication
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Date
2026/01
Volume
49
Pages
e349
Accessed
9/28/26, 6:55 AM
ISSN
0140-525X, 1469-1825
Language
en
Library Catalog
Cambridge University Press
Citation
Mitchell, K. J., & Jennings, C. D. (2026). Consciousness needs a subject. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, e349. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X25103452