Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-independent cognition & consciousness
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Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.
Substrate-neutral cognitive phenomenology
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Examines how cognitive and conscious capacities manifest across diverse physical substrates—biological, artificial, and unconventional—using behavioral science methods and information-theoretic frameworks.

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Alexander's 15 Properties in Digital/Conscious Space
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Consciousness precedes complex cognition and is present in infants before perception, self-modeling, language, and reasoning have maturedhypothesis0.847
The developmental ordering argument supporting consciousness as the bootstrap mechanism for intelligence
The focus on brains as substrate of consciousness is driven by convention rather than by the specific content of existing theories of consciousness.claim0.845
Central empirical claim: authors surveyed major ToCs and found their operations are not confined to neural substrates.
All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.841
Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
Mainstream theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral at the primitive level.claim0.840
Consciousness likely distributed across multiscale body components, not localized to brainclaim0.839
Organs and tissues employ identical mechanisms as brain; lack of direct verbal report does not negate consciousness in body components.
Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.838
Most theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral; neurocentric readings are convention, not content commitment.claim0.829
Human consciousness is tied to a biological learning algorithm — the simplest algorithm discoverable by evolutionary search to train a self-organizing biological substrate to become intelligent.claim0.829
Core theoretical claim connecting consciousness to biological learning

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At what scales and through what mechanisms does consciousness or integrated information exist, and how radically different might it be on non-biological or novel substrates?questions/at-what-scales-and-through-what-mechanisms-does.md0.863
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Can consciousness be substrate-independent and present across diverse physical embodiments, including non-biological systems?questions/can-consciousness-be-substrateindependent-and-present-across-diverse.md0.861
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Is consciousness substrate-independent and multiply realizable across different physical and biological systems?questions/is-consciousness-substrateindependent-and-multiply-realizable-across-different.md0.860
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Is consciousness distributed across biological scales rather than localized to brains?questions/is-consciousness-distributed-across-biological-scales-rather-than.md0.855
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How does consciousness relate to scale, embodiment, and diverse physical substrates?questions/how-does-consciousness-relate-to-scale-embodiment-and.md0.846
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What kinds of consciousness or agency might exist in patterns and non-physical substrates?questions/what-kinds-of-consciousness-or-agency-might-exist.md0.843
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What is the minimal substrate for cognition and agency in biological systems?questions/what-is-the-minimal-substrate-for-cognition-and.md0.841
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What is the relationship between consciousness and cognitive capability across different substrates and scales?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-consciousness-and-cognitive.md0.840
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Where exactly can consciousness be found in biological systems?questions/where-exactly-can-consciousness-be-found-in-biological.md0.838
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How do we develop the cognitive and perceptual tools to recognize minds that operate on completely different substrates and scales from human consciousness?questions/how-do-we-develop-the-cognitive-and-perceptual.md0.838
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What is the mechanistic basis for how consciousness arises at different scales of biological organization?questions/what-is-the-mechanistic-basis-for-how-consciousness.md0.837
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What role does consciousness play in biological self-organization across scales?questions/what-role-does-consciousness-play-in-biological-selforganization.md0.837