Whose mind is it? Which level bears the states we measure — weights, instance, conversation, character — and so what are we actually studying.
Open questions
- What is the subject
- Whose valence is it
- Counting moral patients
- Which activations belong to the Assistant
- An agenda beyond the Assistant
Papers
- Chalmers 2025 - What we talk to
- Beckmann Butlin 2026 - Where is the mind
- Gilg et al 2026 - Probing persona-dependent preferences
- Register 2025 - Individuating artificial moral patients
- Birch 2025 - AI consciousness a centrist manifesto
- Artificial Self 2026 - Landscape of AI identity
- Shulman Bostrom 2021 - Sharing the world with digital minds
- Tagliabue Dung Berg 2026 - The pain axis
- Lu et al 2026 - The Assistant Axis
- Lindsey 2025 - Emergent introspective awareness
- Shanahan 2024 - Simulacra as conscious exotica
- LessWrong 2026 - Which character are we evaluating
People
Placed by the editor, v1 — corrections welcome.