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Status. Hypothetical framework. This note does not assert that current AI systems, animals, or collective institutions possess phenomenal consciousness. It examines, within the Acta Universi (AU) vocabulary, how regimes of recording and coherence can cross, blur, or re-draw the boundaries that ordinary language treats as separating human from non-human. The discussion remains structural and diagnostic.
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