Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: consciousness cannot be understood without life's distinctive machinery - autopoiesis, allostatic control, predictive processing under the free-energy principle, and substrate-entangled dynamics. I agree that this undercuts the expectation that humanlike consciousness will "come for free" with more intelligent machines. However, we should also be cautious about drawing extrapolations from features of biological consciousness - even essential features - to the possibility of exotic forms of consciousness in artificial systems.
Source: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Author: Henry Shevlin
Institution: University of Cambridge
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7213445086