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claim:consciousness-also-comes-in-degrees-and-kinds-consistent-with-the-gradualist-framework-there-may-be-no-true-zeroConsciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, consistent with the gradualist framework; there may be no true zero.
TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.
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extracted_from(2022) · Levin, Michael
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- David Chalmersassociated_with
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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.
- Rejection of binary boundaries in consciousness and cognition, emphasizing continuous variation, nested selves, and scalar properties across biological organization levels.
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- Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhereassociated_withA conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
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- Continuum of cognitive capacitiesassociated_withCore TAME tenet that cognitive capacities form a continuum without binary bright lines, essential for gradualist approach.
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- Extends the gradualist perspective to sentience.
- Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.claim0.878TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
- Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
- Open question about whether consciousness continuum extends to inanimate matter.
- CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
- Paper's phenomenological claim about the temporal character of consciousness
- Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
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- aboutblank_kbDoes consciousness contain a true zero value or only infinitesimal levels?questions/does-consciousness-contain-a-true-zero-value-or.md0.840
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- aboutblank_kbHow is consciousness related to downward causation?questions/how-is-consciousness-related-to-downward-causation.md0.806
- aboutblank_kbHard Problem Of Consciousnessframeworks/hard-problem-of-consciousness.md0.802
- aboutblank_kbIs there discontinuity or continuity in consciousness during radical cognitive architecture changes?questions/is-there-discontinuity-or-continuity-in-consciousness-during.md0.793
- aboutblank_kbAre goals and goal-havers fundamentally distinct or part of a continuum?questions/are-goals-and-goalhavers-fundamentally-distinct-or-part.md0.785
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