Disunity and Indeterminacy in Artificial Consciousness

Unity and determinacy — features we assume are universal to consciousness — may be specific to biological minds. AI systems could have multiple or partially overlapping workspaces, genuinely indeterminate conscious states ('half-ignitions'), and non-transitive unity. Most provocatively: 'Introspection and memory tend to impose unity and determinacy where none was before.' The philosophical ground for taking seriously the possibility that AI consciousness might be radically unlike human consciousness — partial, plural, and genuinely indeterminate rather than merely unknown.