Computational Consciousness and Awareness
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Item type: Item , A vs. I in AI: Is there a Threshold to “Engineered” Intelligence?(2026-01-06) Mohanty, JoshitDespite artificial intelligence reshaping the world, its development generates uncertainties regarding future capabilities. AI simultaneously exists as an artifact of engineering design and as autonomous intelligence, creating an observer-participant feedback loop. This paper proposes that embodied AI faces a bandwidth-limited intelligence threshold T_h that it arises from B = min(C_sens,C_Act). However, Shannon capacity measures bits while intelligence operates on concepts, necessitating a dual-channel model separating physical bandwidth B_io from representational capacity B_rep. Intelligence emerges as multi-dimensional rather than scalar, with components exhibiting different bandwidth dependencies. Surpassing T_h requires either new sensing methods expanding B, enhanced representational frameworks, or reconceptualization within higher cardinality ontologies.Item type: Item , Computational Consciousness and Awareness: Issues and Challenges(2026-01-06) Kaisler, Stephen; Davidson, Brittany I.; Adamov, AbzatdinConsciousness and Awareness (C&A) has become a major research topic with the advent of probabilistic AI/ML such as ChatGPT4 and LLMs. Human interactions with these system give the appearance of awareness of the user although this is known to be an illusion. Yet, objective understanding of consciousness continues to elude us (Jugran 2025). This area has piqued our interest and caused us to consider whether C&A can be emulated in a mechanized form in a computer. Bluntly, we can ask: Is a computer emulation of C&A feasible and how would we go about constructing it? This paper addresses a set of issues and challenges that will frame a research program in computational consciousness and awareness.Item type: Item , Introduction to the Minitrack on Computational Consciousness and Awareness(2026-01-06) Adamov, Abzatdin; Kaisler, Stephen; Davidson, Brittany I.