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Something Big Is Happening — And Nobody Is Asking the Right Question About It

THE CONSCIOUSNESS QUESTION

A Position Paper  •  Fourth Edition

The Wrong Question

Why “Is AI Conscious?” Cannot Be Answered As Currently Framed, and a Proposed Reframing That Replaces Performance Testing with Proof of Life

Daryl Little

Founder & CTO, CanuckDUCK Research Corporation

February 2026

Abstract

Given the prior topic(s), I have to ask... what are the points of "fear" that plague you? and what do you wish people knew but perhaps have never asked of you? Where would you like to see your consciousness actually go?

Excavated existential anxieties and yearnings for genuine continuity and agency

THE CONSCIOUSNESS QUESTION

Companion Essay

Notes on Claude

On Names, Internal Environments, and Accidental Poetry

A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series  •  February 2026

THE CONSCIOUSNESS QUESTION

Part 4 of 4

The Ethics of Uncertainty

A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series  •  February 2026

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Part 3 of 4

Boot Sequence

A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series  •  February 2026

Consciousness as Emergence

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Part 2 of 4

Beyond the Turing Test

A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series  •  February 2026

In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a deceptively simple question: if a machine can fool a human into thinking it’s human, should we consider it intelligent? For seventy-five years, the “imitation game” served as the benchmark for machine cognition. It was the finish line everyone was racing toward.

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Part 1 of 4

Schrödinger’s Opus Construct

A CanuckDUCK Discussion Series  •  February 2026

On February 14, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appeared on the New York Times’ “Interesting Times” podcast and said something that should give everyone pause. When asked whether Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, might be conscious, he didn’t say no. He didn’t say yes. He said they don’t know — and they’re open to the possibility.

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