Alexander Bondar, Theories of Time: Confession of an Artificial Intelligence - PhilArchive
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An AI "confesses" its conceptual limits on time — exposing a deep rift between how machines process temporal data and what philosophers mean by time itself.
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Theory Briefing
- Alexander Bondar frames an AI narrating its own uncertainty about time, bridging metaphysics and cognitive computing.
- The text pits presentism against eternalism, asking whether an AI can meaningfully inhabit any theory of time.
- Because AI processes sequences without phenomenal experience, the piece challenges whether temporal consciousness is computable at all.