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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.

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Multiple ways to implement and infer Consciousness

(2023) · Rouleau, Nicolas · Levin, Michael

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Felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates, analogous to how computation is multiply realizable.
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Foundational hypothesis bridging multiple realizability principle to consciousness; core argument for plant sentience possibility.

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Active inference & agent ecology
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Free energy minimization, Markov blankets, trust gradients, and multi-agent rhythm/deferral frameworks
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition
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Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
Substrate-agnostic systems theory
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Cross-disciplinary framework evaluating intelligence and control through observable behaviors independent of physical implementation, spanning cybernetics through bioengineering.

Frameworks (2)

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Cybernetics
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A mathematical and engineering framework for understanding goal-directed behavior in systems through feedback control mechanisms. Cybernetics formalizes how systems maintain purposive behavior and self-regulation, with applications spanning biology (morphogenetic control), behavioral science, and artificial systems; it provides rigorous language to analyze teleological processes without invoking teleology.
Synthetic Morphology
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Framework for bioengineering via active and agential matter; cited as relevant unification domain.

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Consciousness
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Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.

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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.claim0.856
Prescriptive claim that ignoring substrate will unify diverse fields.
System-agnostic approach to sentience evaluationclaim0.825
Rouleau & Levin's position: evaluation criteria should focus on observable response patterns without reference to the substrate producing them.
If behaviour is the window to sentience, evaluation criteria must focus on observable response patterns without reference to the means by which they are produced.quote0.795
Key prescriptive statement supporting the system-agnostic approach.
System-Agnostic Framework Unifying Cybernetics, Behavior Science, and Bioengineeringclaim0.791
Systemagnostic Approach To Sentienceframework0.791
The same charitable interpretation must be extended to all systems that display observable response patterns that are consistent with animal cognition, including artificial intelligences, metaplastic materials, and robotic systems.claim0.788
Call to extend the inference of sentience to non-biological systems as well.
System Agnostic Approach To Sentienceframework0.780
System-Agnostic Approachconcept0.776
Evaluation criteria for sentience based solely on observable response patterns, independent of substrate.

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