Benny Cheung • 3/1/2026

Hallucinations Aren't Bugs: The Kantian Architecture of AI Consciousness

This article draws a detailed structural analogy between Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' and transformer-based AI architecture. It argues that AI 'hallucinations' are not defects but inevitable outcomes of a system prioritizing logical coherence, mirroring Kant's view of reason operating beyond experience. The analysis maps Kantian concepts like space, time, and categories onto technical components like embeddings and positional encoding.

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#large language models #Transformer Architecture #Philosophy Of Mind