Cognitive Functions Should Be Identified by Behavior, Not Substrate

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• Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.836
  Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
• Cognitive functions such as sentience are always inferred.claim0.829
  First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
• Cognition and learning are substrate-independent.quote0.799
  Bold, load-bearing tenet of the paper's framework.
• Cognition and learning are substrate-independent; principles of basal cognition can be implemented by any network with signals and non-linear responses to weighted inputs.claim0.787
  Core thesis that cognitive principles transcend neural substrates, enabling application to gene-regulatory, ecological, and social networks.
• Cognitive capacities exist on a spectrum and tools from behavioral sciences can be productively applied to understand and control systems far beyond familiar animals with central nervous systems.claim0.785
  Core tenet of diverse intelligence; justifies the methodological borrowing across fields.
• Is Cognition Fundamentally Substrateindependent Or Are There Constraintsquestion0.782
• Could recognizing Diverse Intelligence (in unfamiliar substrates) be essential to understanding the mechanisms and origins of conventional cognition and behavior?question0.775
  Motivates expansion of cognitive science.
• These relationships are cognitive architectures regardless of the substrate in which they are implemented.claim0.773
  Asserts that organismic identity is fundamentally a cognitive structure.