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claim:a34c64f5c2f7f06bMost theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral; neurocentric readings are convention, not content commitment.
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.
- Substrate neutrality of consciousnessmembers_ofPhilosophical shift toward machine consciousness plausibility, documented by Bourget & Chalmers 2020 and Francken et al. 2022 surveys showing majority philosopher acceptance.
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- Primary empirical result from comparative analysis of major consciousness theories.
- Central empirical claim: authors surveyed major ToCs and found their operations are not confined to neural substrates.
- Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.832Central methodological claim of the paper.
- Justifies the multi-theory indicator approach rather than committing to a single theory
- The core argument that ToC functional principles do not pick out brains as a privileged substrate for inner perspective.
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- aboutblank_kbAt 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.md0.831
- aboutblank_kbWhat is the relationship between bioelectrical patterns and consciousness or integrated information?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-bioelectrical-patterns-and.md0.811
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- aboutblank_kbExtended Mind Thesisframeworks/extended-mind-thesis.md0.785
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