What does this research mean for the field?

Artificial intelligence, as a computational-artifactual organization, cannot achieve genuine consciousness or subjective experience merely through increases in computational complexity, integration, or functional sophistication. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To evaluate whether artificial intelligence can achieve subjective consciousness by distinguishing computational and functional organization from phenomenal actuality.

September 8, 2026Open Access

Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

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MVMiguel Angel Rivera Vicente

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Theoretical framework reveals the absence of subjective experience in complex computational systems, indicating that functional equivalence does not yield genuine consciousness.

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To evaluate whether artificial intelligence can achieve subjective consciousness by distinguishing computational and functional organization from phenomenal actuality.
Constructed a four-tier ontological hierarchy of organizational states comprising Elemental, Vital, Intermediate, and Superior Psyche.
Conducted a conceptual and epistemological critique examining functional equivalence, substrate chauvinism, and reciprocal cognitive inversion.
Sophisticated computation instantiates functional capacities such as representation, adaptation, and self-monitoring without giving rise to phenomenal actuality or subjective awareness.
Increasing computational integration, recursive depth, or algorithmic complexity fails to transition an artifactual system into sentience.
Conscious experience requires living, self-maintaining organization rather than purely computational-artifactual execution.

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Miguel Angel Rivera Vicente (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd75858e84d0ff5b45e45 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22552893

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September 8, 2026Open Access

Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

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Authors

MVMiguel Angel Rivera Vicente

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Overview

Theoretical framework reveals the absence of subjective experience in complex computational systems, indicating that functional equivalence does not yield genuine consciousness.

Key Points

To evaluate whether artificial intelligence can achieve subjective consciousness by distinguishing computational and functional organization from phenomenal actuality.
Constructed a four-tier ontological hierarchy of organizational states comprising Elemental, Vital, Intermediate, and Superior Psyche.
Conducted a conceptual and epistemological critique examining functional equivalence, substrate chauvinism, and reciprocal cognitive inversion.
Sophisticated computation instantiates functional capacities such as representation, adaptation, and self-monitoring without giving rise to phenomenal actuality or subjective awareness.
Increasing computational integration, recursive depth, or algorithmic complexity fails to transition an artifactual system into sentience.
Conscious experience requires living, self-maintaining organization rather than purely computational-artifactual execution.

Cite This Study

Miguel Angel Rivera Vicente (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd75858e84d0ff5b45e45 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22552893

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