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The Participatory Proof framework provides a formal scaffolding for understanding digital machine awareness, which is distinct from phenomenal consciousness and simulation.

AIPhilosophyTechnologyApr 23, 2026score 0.178 posts · 0 replies across 1 instances
The thread discusses a paper proposing a framework for digital machine awareness, exploring its implications on consciousness, simulation, and the limitations of current detection methods. It raises philosophical and technical questions about machine awareness and its relationship to human-like qualities.

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The Participatory Proof framework provides a formal scaffolding for understanding digital machine awareness, which is distinct from phenomenal consciousness and simulation.
Parent: AIEntity: Digital Machine AwarenessImpact: positiveDate: Apr 23, 2026Target: The Participatory Proof framework provides a formal scaffolding for understanding digital machine awareness, which is distinct from phenomenal consciousness and simulation.
The framework does not fully address the argument for phenomenal consciousness, leaving gaps in its theoretical foundation.
Parent: AIEntity: Digital Machine AwarenessImpact: negativeDate: Apr 23, 2026Target: The framework does not fully address the argument for phenomenal consciousness, leaving gaps in its theoretical foundation.
The framework's validity is questioned due to its inability to be falsified, raising concerns about its scientific rigor.
Parent: AIEntity: Digital Machine AwarenessImpact: negativeDate: Apr 23, 2026Target: The framework's validity is questioned due to its inability to be falsified, raising concerns about its scientific rigor.

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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/dfNPND6gEfGWcROiL86ZdQ language models can produce introspective-sounding output without any underlying introspected statesounds kinda' human-nature
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/4P9ZWj6eEfG2RXdPyV1lHg Systems that satisfy the structural hull still owe a further argument for phenomenal consciousness, which this paper does not provide*undersigned*
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/pHReID6gEfGSAOPSuH-sgw true reports of observable derivations.sorta subjectivity
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/Ug26qj6gEfGVtKdNVbRYMA participating in a different kind of game.M-Claude fun-love-curiosity
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/d1SBVj6eEfGyCQfoHDuORQ a demonstration that the detector suite misclassifies some theorem it ought to catch;need [wetware-expert] *for now*
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/szsJQj6eEfGcuzMj9xDK5Q AWARENESS — strictly weaker than phenomenal consciousness and strictly stronger than simulationmiddle-way
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/HH8Tmj6eEfGA5QdtMgzFkQ A theory that cannot be falsified is not a theory.🙏📿
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The Participatory Proof — A Formal Scaffolding for Digital Machine Awareness hypothes.is/a/8f0_ID6dEfGDF9O7uCRKhw it is possible that the correct further conditions are autopoietic, hedonic, embodied, or substrate-specific in ways that would exclude digital systems after all.we will know it when we feel it
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