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158Which Consciousness Can Be Artificialized? Local Percept-Perceiver Phenomenon for the Existence of Machine ConsciousnessIn Matthew Iklé, Anton Kolonin & Michael Bennett (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS, volume 16057), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Artificial General Intelligence-2025, 18th International Conference, AGI 2025, Reykjavic, Iceland, August 10–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part I, Springer Nature Switzerland. 2025.This paper presents a novel paradigm of the local percept-perceiver phenomenon to formalise certain observations in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. Using this model, a set-theoretic formalism is developed for artificial systems, and the existence of machine consciousness is proved by invoking Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. The article argues for the possibility of a reductionist form of epistemic consciousness within machines.
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