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All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.

Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.

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Multiple ways to implement and infer Consciousness

(2023) · Rouleau, Nicolas · Levin, Michael

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Multiple ways to implement and infer sentience
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Relational self, care & aliveness
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Self as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition
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Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
Embodied cognition and extended mind
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Cognition and intentionality distributed across body, environment, and behavior rather than localized in the brain; emphasizes empirical testing through embodied interaction and behavioral observation.

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Sentience
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Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.

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If felt states in humans and other animals are always inferred, why is the same leap from observable behaviour to inferred sentience not afforded to other organisms, including plants?
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Central question of the commentary; challenges the double standard in attributing sentience.

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Multiple ways to implement and infer Consciousness (Rouleau & Levin, 2023)
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Commentary on Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (2023) arguing for plant sentience via multiple realizability and substrate independence, published in Animal Sentience.

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