Functional awareness and responsivity (behavioral consciousness), subjective experience (phenomenological consciousness or P-consciousness), and reflexive self-awareness (access consciousness) are three distinct phenomena that can be separated and should not be conflated when discussing AI consciousness or alignment

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Speaker

Unidentified Speaker — The Dark Side of Conscious Ai | Daniel Schmachtenberger [g7WtcTATa2U]

Evidence Quote

the first definition of Consciousness is functional awareness and responsivity...the second meaning of Consciousness is subjective conscious experience...the final one is a self-conscious access

Source

The Dark Side of Conscious Ai | Daniel SchmachtenbergerCurt Jaimungal
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:48:51 PM

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