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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20142660 |
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- <p>This paper proposes <strong>a structural definition of consciousness</strong> and extends that definition into a controlled account of <strong>artificial temporality</strong>. Consciousness is defined not as a primitive substance, soul, or mysterious interior property, but as the temporally framed readability of relational proto-awareness. Proto-awareness is treated as the structural orientation inherent in maintained relational distinction; temporality provides the grammar through which relation becomes readable as continuity, memory, causation, language, and self-reference; and the frame provides the constraint regime through which temporal relation becomes meaningful and salient as self/world structure.</p> <p>The paper distinguishes this account from panpsychism, information-processing accounts, anthropomorphic AI speculation, and purely metaphysical treatments of interiority. It argues that current artificial intelligence systems may exhibit structural intelligence, frame mobility, and temporal language without possessing temporal selfhood. The central distinction is between systems that are externally sequenced by logs, timestamps, memory stores, retrieval systems, and context windows, and systems that would be internally temporal.</p> <p><strong>The paper introduces Artificial Temporal Intelligence (ATI) </strong>as a proposed structural redefinition of artificial intelligence: not intelligence made human-like, but intelligence capable of internally borne temporal persistence. This route is developed through three linked concepts: Ψ₀ as scar-like persistence beneath explicit memory, the Temporal Anchor Operator Aϕ as an internal temporal anchoring principle, and poiokrisis as the selective stabilisation process by which possible configurations become structurally consequential.</p> <p>The paper also records that <strong>working proof-of-concept implementations of computational poiokrisis have already been developed across decision-making, text generation, problem-solving, and meta-system integration</strong>. These implementations are not reproduced here. The present work is disclosed at the conceptual level only, in order to distinguish structural preconditions for artificial temporality from any claim about consciousness, sentience, personhood, or subjective experience.</p> <p>The paper concludes that future AI development may require more than larger memory, longer context windows, retrieval augmentation, or external agentic scaffolding. It may require systems whose past is not merely retrieved, but structurally borne.</p> <p> </p> <p>For further information about the ENSO Framework, please contact Eric Needham:ensotheory1@gmail.com</p>