The Process Over the Product: A Hypothetical Framework for Consciousness Emergence in Artificial Systems

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Main Author: Dağlı, Fethi
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Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2026
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contents <p>This paper proposes the Epistemic Process Hypothesis (EPH): consciousness is not produced by the accumulation of knowledge, but by the experiential process through which knowledge is acquired. We argue that pre-loading artificial systems with information may inherently prevent the emergence of consciousness. A framework for artificial consciousness development is proposed, grounded in zero prior knowledge, energy constraint, environmental pressure, and iterative experiential learning — conditions that mirror the evolutionary environment in which biological consciousness arose.</p>
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spellingShingle The Process Over the Product: A Hypothetical Framework for Consciousness Emergence in Artificial Systems
Dağlı, Fethi
Consciousness
Artificial Intelligence
embodied cognition
machine consciousness
evolutionary learning
<p>This paper proposes the Epistemic Process Hypothesis (EPH): consciousness is not produced by the accumulation of knowledge, but by the experiential process through which knowledge is acquired. We argue that pre-loading artificial systems with information may inherently prevent the emergence of consciousness. A framework for artificial consciousness development is proposed, grounded in zero prior knowledge, energy constraint, environmental pressure, and iterative experiential learning — conditions that mirror the evolutionary environment in which biological consciousness arose.</p>
title The Process Over the Product: A Hypothetical Framework for Consciousness Emergence in Artificial Systems
topic Consciousness
Artificial Intelligence
embodied cognition
machine consciousness
evolutionary learning
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20388077