Ron Chrisley on AI might become conscious

Ron Chrisley

Professor of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex, researching consciousness, machine learning, and AI philosophy.

Seth’s argument relies on the unargued-for claim that if computational functionalism is false, conscious AI is impossible. I show why the claim is in need of support by way of an analogy. I use a different analogy, involving artificial flight, to show that even if human consciousness is ineliminably biological, this does not imply the impossibility of non-biological, computational AI.

Unverified (Sep 17, 2026)

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Ron Chrisley, “Conscious AI does not require computational functionalism, and consciousness may be non-biological, like flight,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, published online September 17, 2026, abstract.