can machines want remake 2026

Description:This repository contains the 2026 revised academic paper titled "Can Machines Want? Computational Intentionality and the Teleological Framework of Artificial Agency" by Milan Jekić (Nicola Ferrei). The work investigates the conceptual boundaries of artificial agency, exploring whether modern autonomous systems and advanced multi-modal architectures can possess genuine volitional vectors or functional "wants". By shifting the analytical lens from biological phenomenal consciousness to objective behavioral architectures and non-linear optimization loops, the author introduces a formal framework for computational intentionality. The essay analyzes how emergent self-directed loops constitute a distinct, operative category of artificial volition and teleology, vital for understanding AI alignment and future autonomous systems.