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Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.

Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.

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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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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition
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Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
Substrate-independent functionalism and emergence
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Explores how cognitive functions arise across diverse physical systems through computational principles, emphasizing substrate neutrality and whole-system coherence.

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Substrate Independence
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Idea that functions can be achieved without contingency of particular material or physical medium; used to argue sentience need not require neural tissue.
Multiple Realizability
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Philosophical framework asserting same function can be implemented by very different systems; key to arguing sentience is substrate-independent.
It is quite possible that felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates.
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Load-bearing quote summarizing the paper's core hypothesis about sentience substrate independence.

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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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First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
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Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
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