Biological naturalism holds that properties of life (autopoiesis, interoceptive inference, existential stake) may be necessary for consciousness, ruling out silicon-based AI even if computational functionalism is false is sufficient for the ruling out

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• If computational functionalism is correct, then some computations suffice for consciousness and the question is which ones and when they will exist in AI.hypothesis0.844
  Conditional underlying the consciousness route.
• If computational functionalism is true, consciousness in AI systems built on conventional hardware is possible in principle.claim0.838
  Core claim enabling the indicator method's relevance to current AI systems
• If computational functionalism is false, consciousness may be impossible in non-organic artificial systems.hypothesis0.836
  Contrapositive possibility acknowledged.
• Under organismic functionalism, a conscious AI would need to be something much more like an artificial self-maintaining organism than a sophisticated computerhypothesis0.824
  Conditional implication of Level 4 indicators for AI design.
• We hypothesize that adopting computational functionalism as a working assumption allows productive investigation of which computational properties are necessary and sufficient for consciousness and whether current AI systems could implement them.hypothesis0.824
  The paper's core methodological bet: use computational functionalism as a working assumption even while remaining agnostic about its truth
• It is hard to coherently deny functionalism in any reasonable theory of consciousness, since any theory must tie consciousness to certain configurations, which smuggles functionalism back in.claim0.803
  Paper's argument that all viable theories of consciousness implicitly rely on structural-functional criteria
• Biological Computationalismconcept0.800
  Core theoretical framework: consciousness requires hybrid (discrete + continuous), scale-inseparable, metabolically embedded computation distinct from von Neumann architecture.
• If computational functionalism is true, conscious AI systems could realistically be built in the near term.hypothesis0.797
  Conditional prediction about the feasibility of conscious AI.