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Hovedforfatter: King, Alison Jane
Format: Recurso digital
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Udgivet: Zenodo 2026
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19047695
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  • <p>This paper introduces the CPA Distinction, a conceptual framework that differentiates between fundamental consciousness (C), proto-awareness (P), and conscious awareness (A) as stages within a hierarchy of increasing representational complexity.</p> <p>The framework proposes that cognitive systems evolve through progressively deeper forms of environmental and self-modelling, moving from basic environmental sensitivity (P1) and biological signalling (P2) to experiential awareness (A1) and ultimately recursive self-modelling (A2).</p> <p>Drawing on insights from complexity science, cognitive theory, and philosophy of mind, the CPA framework interprets the emergence of awareness as a gradual expansion of representational capacity rather than a sudden biological threshold.</p> <p>The model also explores potential structural thresholds in system complexity that may correspond to transitions between awareness regimes, and examines implications for identity, artificial intelligence, and the philosophical “Hard Problem” of consciousness.</p>