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claim:cognitive-functions-such-as-sentience-are-always-inferredCognitive functions such as sentience are always inferred.
First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
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extracted_from(2023) · Rouleau, Nicolas · Levin, Michael
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
- Substrate-independent minimal cognitionmembers_ofCognition as behavioral competence independent of physical substrate, exemplified by sparse neural circuits and single-cell organisms exhibiting goal-directed behavior.
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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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- Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
- Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
- Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.
- Claim that the basis for inferring animal sentience is intuitive, not empirical.
- Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
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