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Minimal autopoiesis in an AI system
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x25103786Abstract
A minimally autopoietic artificial intelligence (AI) system could be designed according to current engineering principles. Although Seth suggests that standard computational systems are not autopoietic and therefore not conscious, autopoiesis is a high-level, functional concept, and nothing appears to prevent autopoietic processes in a standard computational system. Autopoietic requirements do not in principle rule out consciousness in standard AI systems.
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