The Perceiver and the Trace Cannot Collapse
The claim that machines are not conscious is not a ballot cast in a public poll, but a foundational constraint on method. Consciousness is directly accessible only at the first-person site of the living mind; every attribution of an inner life to others relies on embodied analogy from that single locus. When large language models emit fluent linguistic artifacts, mistaking derived meaning—conferred by human minds—for an autonomous consciousness within silicon conceals the living humans who generated and read the data. This misallocation reflects both an impoverished inner life in the observer…
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