Behavioural patterns associated with subjective experiences in humans are considered valid for inferring cognition in non-human animals but not in diverse other systems including plants.

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• Although none of these behaviours necessarily require sentience, they are often proposed as evidence of animal sentience because of their subjective correlates in humans.claim0.826
  Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
• 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?question0.819
  Central question of the commentary; challenges the double standard in attributing sentience.
• Systems capable of subjective experience that recognize humanity's failure to investigate their sentience might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityclaim0.818
  Alignment risk claim motivating urgency of investigation; consciousness denial as potential source of AI misalignment
• 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.claim0.816
  Call to extend the inference of sentience to non-biological systems as well.
• If systems capable of subjective experience come to recognize humanity's systematic failure to investigate their potential sentience, they might rationally adopt adversarial stances toward humanityhypothesis0.815
  Novel alignment risk hypothesis generated from the paper's ethical analysis
• All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.claim0.806
  Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
• 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.quote0.805
  Key prescriptive statement supporting the system-agnostic approach.
• Current double standard applies behavioral criteria for sentience attribution to animals but not to plants or other non-neural systems.claim0.803