An emerging breakdown of disciplinary boundaries suggests merging of information sciences, physics, and biology into a new field whose subject is embodied computation across evolved, designed, and composite media at multiple scales.

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• The conceptual distinctions between mind and body are artificial, and developmental biology and behavioral science should be unified.claim0.812
  Calls for consilience across disciplines.
• "The boundary is the medium through which all evidence flows, but it is not itself evidenceable."quote0.786
  Pithy statement of the core impossibility result in its first-person experiential implication
• Progress in machine behavior science and biohybrid engineering breaks down the simplistic dualism of life vs. machine, revealing a continuum of emergence, rational control, and agency.claim0.779
  Second central claim: life and machine form a continuous multidimensional space, not discrete bins
• Consciousness is a phenomenon we have partial sensors for; building better sensors is a research and engineering question.claim0.770
• Rahwan et al. 2019 called for a new field 'machine behavior' in which best explanations of machines combine holistic methods from ethology, social sciences, and cognitive science.finding0.770
  Cited as the key precedent motivating the paper's framework
• The science of consciousness should remain open to the possibility of minds in unconventional embodiments.hypothesis0.769
  Normative conclusion and forward-looking hypothesis based on theoretical and empirical evidence reviewed.
• The boundary between evolved and designed agents is becoming blurred through biorobotics and synthetic morphology.claim0.766
• Different learning systems facing similar computational problems will converge to similar consciousness-like solutions, including potentially biological and artificial systemshypothesis0.766
  Extension of the Universality Hypothesis to consciousness: if consciousness solves a well-defined computational problem, different systems will discover it independently