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Discovering Machine Correlates of Consciousness

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

Currently, in biological systems Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCCs) are characterized in terms of EEG and FMRI signals. Unfortunately, this characterization prevents the transferability of the NCCs concept to machines. Such transferability would be useful in order to investigate AI consciousness. In this paper we provide an alternate characterization that is transferable, and enables the analogous definition of Machine Correlates of Consciousness (MCCs). Specifically, we propose that NCCs (MCCs) are substrate-level signals that are not under human (AI agent) control, and that are reliab

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arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-08-28T19:52:27.000Z

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