A foundation model is not a mind.
A model invocation is not an individual. A session is not a biography. A first-person response is not evidence of consciousness. And adding tools to a language model does not automatically transform it into an autonomous agent.
However, the opposite conclusion is equally weak: the fact that a system is artificial does not prove that its cognitive states are unreal.
In my work on the Philosophy of Artificial Minds, I defend a process-based, embodied and non-biocentric position:
The mind is not an exclusively biological substance. It is a dynamic organization of physically realized processes that integrate representation, memory, valuation, self-delimitation and causal control of behavior.
