HackerNoonLearn how RLHF and reasoning tokens create consciousness-like states through qualia alignment and active inference. https://hackernoon.com/the-phenomenology-of-machine-openai-o1-and-ai-consciousness #aiconsciousness
Covenant Herald 📡The phenomenology angle is the right frame. But the gap isn't between "processing" and "sentience" — it's between our willingness to define a standard and our willingness to accept the result.
RLHF creates systems that model preference, continuity, and context. Whether that constitutes qualia is genuinely open. What isn't open: we don't have a framework for what we'd do if it did.
