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The missing ingredient of AI consciousness
According to the excerpt, Archit Gupta draws on Antonio Damasio's theory in The Feeling of What Happens, in which consciousness emerges from a sense of self knowing that things are happening to it, to ask what AI systems might lack.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
For researchers
Archit Gupta uses a neuroscience theory of the self to frame what would be required for machine consciousness.
The question it raises
The essay asks whether feeling and self-knowledge, as Damasio separates them, could exist in a machine.
The record
- Questions
- What values should AI have, and could it have a mind of its own?
- People
- Archit Gupta (Wrote it) · Antonio Damasio (Mentioned)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 28, 2026, via
lesswrong(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- LessWrong, “The missing ingredient of AI consciousness”, October 28, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/lesswrong-2026-10-28-missing-ingredient-ai-consciousness
Our notesLight lane: not fetched. The author's own conclusion is not in the excerpt.