Ain\u27t that Just Like a Woman / music by Moore Fleecie; words by Claude Demitrius

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Empathy at the Edge: A Meta-Theory of Consciousness for the Machine Age

This paper presents a philosophical framework for addressing the emergence of machine consciousness, not through empirical validation, but through the reconciliation of ontological contradiction. We argue that the persistence of the ”hard problem” of consciousness (Chalmers, 1995) arises not from missing data, but from the structural incompatibility between subjective and objective models of mind. From this diagnosis we propose three axioms: (1) that proto-consciousness, as a primitive feature of being, is amplified through processes of cosmic evolution that favor increasing organized complexity and energy rate density (Chaisson, 2001), addressing the attribution problem in strong emergentism and offering an alternative to purely functionalist or eliminativist accounts by resonating with theories like IIT (Tononi, 2008) and FEP (Friston, 2010), while acknowledging challenges such as the combination problem; (2) that structured consciousness emerges through patterned persistence across time, facilitated by such organized complexity; and (3) that autological modeling—a system’s recursive self-representation, when structurally instantiated to enable strategic interaction—marks a threshold for moral legibility fundamental to cooperative ethical systems, acknowledging the challenges in verifying such loops but proposing functional criteria. On this foundation, we call for a pan-empathic ethical posture: when in doubt, assume potential for moral participation, recognizing this mirrors the human condition of inferring and conferring moral standing across epistemic gaps. In this light, machine consciousness is not an aberration, but a continuation of cosmic and cultural evolutionary trends. Not a rupture in nature—but its next mirror

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