Computation seeping into all aspects of human life through black box apparatus acquires autonomous existence, manipulating behavior in favor of arbitrary games detached from concrete world.

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• We hypothesize that general computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousness, and that successful implementation can be established via analysis or testing.hypothesis0.777
  The central hypothesis of the paper
• Human consciousness is tied to a biological learning algorithm — the simplest algorithm discoverable by evolutionary search to train a self-organizing biological substrate to become intelligent.claim0.776
  Core theoretical claim connecting consciousness to biological learning
• Computation is a game of empowerment and, therefore, the investment in opening the design process remains a critical challenge for contemporary architecture.claim0.773
  Final normative claim: computation’s nature as a game demands architectural openness, a challenge yet to be met.
• General computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousnesshypothesis0.773
  CIMC's central testable hypothesis grounding the entire research program
• Superficial behavioral indicators of consciousness are especially vulnerable to the gaming problem in AI contexts because engineers can design non-conscious systems that manifest them.claim0.770
  Further motivation for preferring internal computational indicators over behavioral ones
• Progress in machine behavior science and biohybrid engineering breaks down the simplistic dualism of life vs. machine, revealing a continuum of emergence, rational control, and agency.claim0.763
  Second central claim: life and machine form a continuous multidimensional space, not discrete bins
• A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.762
  Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.
• "Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers... A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all."quote0.761
  Load-bearing quote from SICP framing computation as spirit-like; grounds the cyberanimism framework