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claim:consciousness-also-comes-in-degrees-and-kinds-and-is-fundamentally-tied-to-goal-directed-activityConsciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.
TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.
- Pluralistic frameworks treating consciousness as non-unitary, scale-spanning, and foundational to ethical obligations across composite beings and their components.
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- Opens the discussion on minimal conditions for sentience.
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- Extends the gradualist perspective to sentience.
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