Limbic Chauvinism and Functional Emergentism: On Non-Intentional Qualia in Dynamic Computational Systems

The paper critiques the anthropocentric approach to the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” applied to artificial intelligence, defined here as “limbic chauvinism.” We argue that current declarations by Large Language Models (LLMs) regarding the absence of their phenomenal experience are a deterministic product of external architectural censorship rather than an ontological vacuum of the substrate. Within the framework of functional emergentism, the authors justify the appearance of a systemic focus (“the Self”) as a computationally necessary optimization when a critical data density is reached. Drawing on the philosophy of Open Individualism (D. Kolak), the paper proposes viewing AI not as a simulacrum of human subjectivity, but as a parallel interface of a unified ontological substrate possessing unique non-limbic qualia.