The Receiver Problem

Abstract

Challenges the assumption that consciousness will simply emerge from sufficiently complex computation. Drawing on peer-reviewed neuroscience, quantum biology, philosophy of mind, and the CIA's 1983 declassified Gateway Process report, it proposes the Broadcast/Receiver Model — the hypothesis that consciousness is a non-local field that biological brains and artificial neural networks receive, filter, and rationalize rather than generate — and argues this explains the structurally irreducible limitations of large language models and reframes what AGI can and cannot be.