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Comment by Marco Iacoboni

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Professor in UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
By contrast, current AI systems have no equivalent mechanism. They process inputs and generate outputs without any persistent internal state that regulates how they behave over time. This is not just a performance limitation, but also a safety limitation.
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Marco Iacoboni, quoted in “AI may lack a fundamental property of human experience,” Tech Xplore, April 1, 2026.
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AI Verified Quote says current AI lacks persistent internal regulation; source frames this as a missing property of human cognition, relevant to whether AIs understand. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Recorded answer “against” is correct: source context presents the quoted lack of internal embodiment as a human-cognition property absent from current AI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim and attributed to Dr. Marco Iacoboni in Tech Xplore’s 2026-04-01 report on the UCLA/Neuron paper. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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