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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c4-c2Substrate neutrality of consciousness
Philosophical shift toward machine consciousness plausibility, documented by Bourget & Chalmers 2020 and Francken et al. 2022 surveys showing majority philosopher acceptance.
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- 2026-05-15_manifold-overlap-papers-economy-strategy.md4 members
- 2026-05-14_phil-trans-A-goodfire-aboutblank-impact.md2 members
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously2 members
- 2026 02 02_2324_Search_Papers_The Research Thread On Sci Loop Methodology For Ai1 member
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds1 member
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Claims (8)
- No Privileged Material Substrate for MindMinds not exclusively neural; basal cognition identifies intelligences in single cells, plants, tissues, swarms; brains pre-date neurons evolutionarily.
- Some papers question the fundamental assumptions about machine consciousnessCounterposition within literature: skepticism toward claims that self-referential processing constitutes genuine machine consciousness.
- About Blank's publication window for 'consciousness in unconventional substrates' framing is closing as academic consensus consolidates.
- Academic consensus is shifting toward substrate neutrality of cognitive primitives.
- Mainstream theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral at the primitive level.
- Most theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral; neurocentric readings are convention, not content commitment.
- Pure-text-substrate research has a technical ceiling.
- Real progress on phenomenology requires hybrid/embodied substrate work accessible only to frontier labs with model access.
Findings (2)
- Bourget and Chalmers 2020 survey: ~39% of philosophers accept or lean toward future AI consciousnessSurvey result on philosophical attitudes toward AI consciousness.
- Francken et al. 2022 survey of ASSC members: only 3% responded 'no' to machines having consciousnessSurvey result showing widespread expert openness to machine consciousness.