Kimiyasu Igarashi

From Universality to Consciousness: Beyond the Skull, Into the World

AbstractThe laws of the world are common, but the world does not appear in the same manner to everybearer. This paper explains that difference without treating it as an exception to universal law. Its proposal is that a history of relations with the world folds back into the pres...

From Universality to Consciousness: Beyond the Skull, Into the World

AbstractThe laws of the world are common, but the world does not appear in the same manner to everybearer. This paper explains that difference without treating it as an exception to universal law. Its proposal is that a history of relations with the world folds back into the pres...

Who Is the 'Who'? A Bearer-First Framework for Artificial Consciousness, Welfare, Privacy, and Responsibility

AbstractDebates about artificial consciousness and AI welfare ask whether an artificial system can feel, deserve protection, possess private interests, or bear responsibility. Each question contains a prior pronoun: whose experience, welfare, history, action, and future? For orga...