AI & Consciousness: The Architecture of Feeling: Detailed Deck

The Architecture of Feeling: Artificial Consciousness, Active Inference, and the Hard Problem. A 9-slide deck for Birth of a Corpse? | The Conscious AI Debate by Cézjah (New Intellectual LLC), the AI & Consciousness companion to How to Design an Emotion. Mark Solms and colleagues argue that an artificial agent built on homeostatic need, active inference, and a Markov blanket can instantiate affective consciousness (Solms et al. 2026, "Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent," Journal of Consciousness Studies 33(7–8)). The deck walks through the architecture, the hedonic place preference test, and the perspectival identity thesis, and shows where the step from functional mattering to phenomenological feeling is assumed rather than shown. Supplement to the working paper Birth of a Corpse? Affective Consciousness, Perspectival Identity, and the Unbridged Gap in Artificial Feeling (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23933067). Product page: https://newintellectual.com/products/ai-consciousness.