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May 25, 2026Open Access

The Machine That Seems Awake: Why AI Fluency Creates the Illusion of Inner Life

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VJVladisav Jovanovic

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The paper analyzes how AI fluency creates the illusion of inner life, suggesting implications for understanding machine consciousness.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore why AI appears to have inner life through fluent language and emotional cues, while lacking actual consciousness.
  • Analyzed the characteristics of large language models that create the impression of wakefulness.
  • Distinguished between AI output and genuine presence in human life.
  • Introduced three Structural Intelligence concepts to understand human projection onto AI.
  • Fluent output alone does not provide evidence of AI subjectivity or inner experience.
  • Identified critical requirements for claims of AI consciousness, including persistent identity and evidence of experience.
  • Argued that AI demonstrates the shape of human signals of awakeness without actual presence.

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Vladisav Jovanovic (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a13e8d20e02ee3982d33611https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20353390
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