{"id":13857,"date":"2026-02-12T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13857"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:08:43","slug":"could-an-advanced-ai-system-be-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/could-an-advanced-ai-system-be-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Could an Advanced AI System be Conscious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My <em>Substack<\/em> uploads continue. You can read them without subscribing simply by heading over there. <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/artificial-intelligence-and-the-unity?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Here<\/a> is the latest. Perhaps David Brightly can poke a hole or two in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of Brightly, <a href=\"https:\/\/tillyandlola.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/the-irreducibility-of-intentionality.html\">here<\/a> is a post of his in which he engages me on the topic of the irreducibility of intentionality.\u00a0 Mr. Brightly is a model of clarity, precision, and gentlemanliness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Substack uploads continue. You can read them without subscribing simply by heading over there. Here is the latest. Perhaps David Brightly can poke a hole or two in it. Speaking of Brightly, here is a post of his in which he engages me on the topic of the irreducibility of intentionality.\u00a0 Mr. Brightly is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/could-an-advanced-ai-system-be-conscious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could an Advanced AI System be Conscious?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-consciousness-and-qualia","category-unity-of-a-complex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13860,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions\/13860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}