This thesis examines stream of consciousness and internal monologue in literary texts generated by artificial intelligence, exploring the relationship between language, the subject, consciousness, and simulation. It begins by distinguishing between stream of consciousness—as a broader phenomenon representing inner life—and interior monologue as a narrative technique. The theoretical section integrates literary-theoretical, philosophical, and psychological approaches, while the analytical section is based on a comparison of three texts: Virginia Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, and a short story generated by the large language model ChatGPT. The analysis establishes a triptych of three modes of representing consciousness: in Woolf, consciousness appears as dispersed; in Cha, as questionable; and in artificial intelligence, as a superfluous premise for creating the effect of subjectivity. It is found that AI-generated text reproduces the discursive and stylistic traces of consciousness without a verifiable experiential subject being presupposed as their source. Thus, artificial intelligence does not resolve the question of consciousness but rather reveals its connection to linguistic effects and opens up a broader humanistic reflection on the subject, language, meaning, and literary creativity.
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