Phenomenal

An inquiry into the boundary of machine experience

I · The Fluent Machine

A language model passes every behavioral test for understanding. It responds appropriately, corrects its mistakes, expresses uncertainty, seems curious. Is there anything left to explain? What would phenomenal consciousness add?

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II · The Stuck Sensor

A robot's pain sensor malfunctions and keeps reporting pain when nothing is wrong. How would you distinguish genuine pain experience from a stuck pain detector? What evidence could, in principle, settle this?

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III · From the Inside

You believe you are conscious. What is the actual evidence — from the inside? How would things look different if you were a philosophical zombie, functionally identical but with no inner experience?

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