# Which Consciousness Can Be Artificialized? Local Percept-Perceiver Phenomenon for the Existence of Machine Consciousness

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18935 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.18935/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 22 Jun 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.07103/) (2023)
- [Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.04571/) (2024)
- [Quantum effects in the brain: A review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.08423/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents a novel paradigm of the local percept-perceiver phenomenon to formalize certain observations in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. Using this model, a set-theoretic formalism is developed for artificial systems, and the existence of machine consciousness is proved by invoking Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. The article argues for the possibility of a reductionist form of epistemic consciousness within machines.