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Substrate Independence

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Bridges (4)

Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.

Concepts (3)

  • Substrate IndependenceIdea that functions can be achieved without contingency of particular material or physical medium; used to argue sentience need not require neural tissue.
  • Multiple RealizabilityPhilosophical framework asserting same function can be implemented by very different systems; key to arguing sentience is substrate-independent.
  • Plant SentiencePossibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.

Thinkers (2)

  • Nicolas RouleauCo-author; neuroscientist studying embodied and bioengineered tissues to model neural diseases and minimal cognitive systems.
  • CalvoCo-author with Segundo-Ortín of paper on plant sentience reviewed in this commentary.

Papers (1)