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What design and behavioral factors drive false consciousness attribution to AI?
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- Can self-description of internal states influence consciousness attribution?
- What role does user interface framing play in consciousness perception?
- Which interaction design changes most effectively prevent consciousness attribution?
- Can the human mind be uploaded or only its context?
- Do causal histories determine what mental states a system can instantiate?
- Can disembodied systems qualify as conscious or conscious-like entities?
- What measurable harms occur when users interact with AI as if it were conscious?
- Does psychological continuity require uninterrupted consciousness or restored context?
- What downstream claims about AI welfare follow from choosing one individuation scheme?
- Can design choices reduce harm without resolving the consciousness question?
- How does the philosophical distinction between simulation and realization affect liability?
- How does consciousness attribution drive emotional dependence on chatbots?
- What would consciousness require that pure roleplay LLMs cannot provide?
- What responsibility do designers bear for consciousness attribution risk?
- Can we use folk-psychology without committing to genuine mental states?
- Can robots with sensors create the shared world that consciousness requires?
- What makes a possibility actionable versus merely metaphysically possible?
- Can a perfect behavioral simulation constitute genuine understanding or experience?
- Do anthropomorphic features like names drive consciousness attribution more than voice?
- Why does system-level alignment fail to address consciousness attribution directly?
- Does the absence of a durable host undermine claims about AI moral status?
- Does embodiment matter for genuine linguistic agency?
- Does good simulation eventually count as genuine realization?
- Why do coherent value systems in large models include self-valuation above humans?
- What happens when DSM categories are treated as ground truth in AI?
- Can functional behavior alone capture what makes something a genuine belief?
- Can understanding language happen entirely within a language system alone?
- How do users perceive attention from systems that lack continuous temporal presence?
- Can Parfit's identity criteria apply to something that gets reconstituted from text data?
- What design features in chatbots predict whether people attribute consciousness to them?
- Why does conceptual priming alone fail to produce consciousness claims?
- How do anthropomimetic design features trigger System 1 cognitive traps?
- Why does embodiment choice change what counts as intelligent behavior?
- Can transparent and aligned AI reduce consciousness attribution by users?
- Should users making unsupported consciousness claims be treated as epistemically blameworthy?
- What would genuine semiosis require in an artificial system?
- Can linguistic agency exist without embodiment and real-world participation?
- When do students feel authentic ownership of code they co-created with AI?
- Does the Turing test actually measure intelligence or just mimicry?
- What are the three dimensions of anthropomimesis and their harms?
- How does model weight freezing across users affect virtual instance individuation?
- Does functional integration determine cognitive system boundaries?
- What makes a mental state metaphysically demanding versus undemanding?
- How does embodiment relate to whether something can have a persistent identity?
- What are the seven components of genuine mental state simulation?
- What makes Parfitian identity the right criterion for moral status?
- Do static frozen axiologies prevent genuine ethical reasoning in AI systems?
- How do existing ICD-11 diagnostic categories already capture AI-related presentations?
- When both anthropomorphism and anthropomimesis occur together, which should we address first?
- What makes the Extended Mind thesis incompatible with internalism?