# A Paper Revives Leibniz, Turing and Searle to Argue Consciousness Tests Belong in AI Safety Work

The authors formalize a symbolic setting in which successful behavior is measurable, then ask what the classic thought experiments actually distinguish.

- Published: 2026-08-04T06:03:13.954Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-04/a-paper-revives-leibniz-turing-and-searle-to-argue-conscious
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00001), [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/societal-impacts)

A research note posted to arXiv this week revisits Leibniz's mill, Turing's imitation game and Searle's Chinese Room through a framework the authors call Conservation-Congruent Encoding, formalizing a toy symbolic setting in which successfu…

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