The Omniscience Paradox: Cognitive Superiority, Experiential Access, and the Limits of a Single Intelligence Ranking
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This conceptual preprint distinguishes cognitive performance, propositional knowledge, and first-person experiential access. In a stipulated comparison between a biological human and a cognitively superior engineered agent without phenomenal experience, the two profiles are incomparable under componentwise dominance. The result is elementary and conditional; it does not establish that machines lack consciousness or a novel impossibility theorem about omniscience. It identifies the extra evaluative assumptions needed for a single ranking.
Author: Dwivedi, Rakshit
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7222799376
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