发表机构
University of Cape Town; University of the Witwatersrand; Laureate Institute for Brain Research; University of Tulsa; Delft University of Technology; National Institute for Theoretical & Computational Sciences; Institut National de la recherche scientifique（开普敦大学; 威特沃特斯兰德大学; 劳雷亚德脑研究所; 塔尔萨大学; 代尔夫特理工大学; 国家理论与计算科学研究所; 国家科学研究所）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
本研究以案例探讨了一种确定性人工智能体，通过模拟情感系统对内在需求与环境资源的感知不确定性，表现出享乐性位置偏好行为，为理解意识的物理基础与自由意志体验提供了启示。
AI 中文摘要
许多科学家认为，表现出“享乐性位置偏好行为”的生物具有主观感受，因为它们对非营养性愉悦物质（如可卡因、吗啡）的吸引力难以归因于无意识本能行为。本文探讨了一种简单人工智能体如何表现出享乐性位置偏好行为：该智能体实例化了情感系统的属性，对自身内在需求与环境资源的关系存在“被感知到的不确定性”，这种行为通过一种看似主观的信息处理形式实现，同时完全是确定性的。我们概述了这种人工工程行为对理解意识的物理基础和自由意志体验的一些启示。
英文摘要
Creatures that display 'hedonic place preference behaviour' are thought by many scientists to experience feelings, on the assumption that their attraction to pleasure-producing substances which lack nutritional value (e.g. cocaine, morphine) cannot easily be attributed to unconscious instinctual behaviour. In this paper, we discuss how a simple artificial agent that instantiates attributes of an affective system engaging in felt uncertainty about its intrinsic needs in relation to environmental resources can similarly display hedonic place preference behaviour -- through an apparently subjective form of information processing -- while simultaneously being entirely deter-ministic. We outline some implications of this artificially engineered behaviour for our understanding of the physical basis of consciousness and the experience of free will.
Journal refJournal of Consciousness Studies, 33(7-8), 2026, pp. 14-34
DOI：10.53765/20512201.33.7.014
