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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“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”
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:48:51 PM
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