Substrate-agnostic systems theory

Cross-disciplinary framework evaluating intelligence and control through observable behaviors independent of physical implementation, spanning cybernetics through bioengineering.

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Multiple ways to implement and infer sentience2 members
Multiple ways to implement and infer Consciousness2 members
Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue1 member
Towards a computational phenomenology of mental action: modelling meta-awareness and attentional control with deep parametric active inference1 member

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Active inference & agent ecology6 shared
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition4 shared
Hierarchical predictive processing architecture1 shared

Claims (6)

A system-agnostic approach offers the best roadmap for a deep, empirically fruitful unification of frameworks across cybernetics, behavioural science, bioengineering, robotics, materials science, and biomedicine.Prescriptive claim that ignoring substrate will unify diverse fields.
A system-agnostic approach evaluating observable response patterns without reference to substrate offers the best roadmap for empirically fruitful unification.Core argumentative position: sentience assessment should focus on behavior, not substrate composition; extends to AI and robotic systems.
Any system monitoring and controlling its own processing requires all three hierarchical levels: perception, attention, meta-awareness.Design principle with implications for AI and consciousness-UX; architectural requirement for self-directed cognition.
Intelligence ratchet through substrate unreliability and competency
System-agnostic approach to sentience evaluationRouleau & Levin's position: evaluation criteria should focus on observable response patterns without reference to the substrate producing them.
System-Agnostic Framework Unifying Cybernetics, Behavior Science, and Bioengineering