====================================================================== CONSCIOUSNESS SOURCE NOTES ====================================================================== For THE MACHINE THAT WOKE UP BEFORE WE KNEW WHAT WAKING WAS. These sources support the limited factual scaffolding in the essay. The larger questions about artificial minds remain open questions, not settled findings. SOURCE: AI-CONSCIOUSNESS-2023 TITLE: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness AUTHORS: Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Eric Elmoznino, Yoshua Bengio, Jonathan Birch, et al. DATE: 2023 TYPE: Research report / preprint URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708 NOTES: The authors derive indicator properties from several scientific theories of consciousness and assess contemporary AI systems against them. They conclude that the systems assessed are not conscious under their analysis, while finding no obvious technical barrier to future systems satisfying more indicators. SOURCE: THEORIES-CONSCIOUSNESS-2022 TITLE: Theories of consciousness PUBLICATION: Nature Reviews Neuroscience DATE: 2022 TYPE: Review article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00587-4 NOTES: Orientation for Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, recurrent-processing approaches, higher-order theories and related disagreements. SOURCE: GNWT-IIT-2025 TITLE: Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness PUBLICATION: Nature DATE: 2025 TYPE: Primary research article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08888-1 NOTES: An open-science adversarial collaboration tested predictions associated with Global Neuronal Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory. The reported results supported some aspects of both theories while challenging important predictions. SOURCE: TIME-DEPENDENT-VARIABLES TITLE: Differential Equations, Chapter 1 supplementary notes PUBLICATION: MIT OpenCourseWare, 18.03 Differential Equations TYPE: Educational reference URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-03-differential-equations-spring-2010/eddb09419700a7ef0513cc52118d86a8_MIT18_03S10_chapter_1.pdf NOTES: Basic reference for quantities that vary as functions of time. This is not evidence for any particular theory of consciousness. SOURCE: DYNAMICAL-SYSTEM TITLE: Dynamical System PUBLICATION: Wolfram MathWorld TYPE: Reference entry URL: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DynamicalSystem.html NOTES: Reference orientation for systems whose state develops over time. DATE ACCESSED: September 1, 2026 The essay does not claim that any present-day language model has subjective experience. Its questions about copies, embodiment, networks, phase changes and machine experience are philosophical speculation. NITETIME ARCHIVE ROUTES BACK TO ARTIFICIAL MINDS: /archive/mechanical-minds/ai/ BACK TO MECHANICAL MINDS: /archive/mechanical-minds/ BACK TO THE ARCHIVE: /archive/ BACK TO NITETIME.NET: /