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The aim is to explore consciousness as an essential process for self-modification in representational systems.

February 11, 2026Open Access

Consciousness as Architectural Necessity: Self-Modeling, Stable Self-Revision, and the Dissolution of the Hard Problem

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BLBarzin LotfabadiSANE Mental Health Charity

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This work argues that consciousness is essential for systems to modify their own representations, suggesting profound implications for ethics and artificial intelligence.

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The aim is to explore consciousness as an essential process for self-modification in representational systems.
Develop a hypothesis linking consciousness to self-modelling.
Analyze failure modes in systems lacking self-modelling.
Reframe qualia in terms of perceptual abstractions over computational processes.
Consciousness is identified as a self-modelling necessity, not just an epiphenomenon.
The hard problem of consciousness is reframed as a category error.
Self-modelling is shown to enhance ethical reasoning and has implications for artificial intelligence.

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Barzin Lotfabadi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698c1bcd267fb587c655dc2b https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18566266

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This work argues that consciousness is essential for systems to modify their own representations, suggesting profound implications for ethics and artificial intelligence.

Consciousness as Architectural Necessity: Self-Modeling, Stable Self-Revision, and the Dissolution of the Hard Problem

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