Consciousness is always happening now — it constitutes what we experience as the immediate present; its minimal state contains only the presence of consciousness itself.

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• In its minimal state, conscious experience may contain nothing but the bare registration of its own occurrence, requiring only that the perceptual process is present within the field it createsclaim0.864
  CIMC's account of minimal phenomenal experience as the target for research and construction
• Consciousness remains without an agreed scientific characterization, without a validated theory connecting mechanism to experience, and without criteria for establishing its presence or absence in any systemclaim0.819
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
• Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.819
• Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, consistent with the gradualist framework; there may be no true zero.claim0.819
  TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.
• Consciousness is palpated uncertainty about your own memories and internal states.hypothesis0.818
  Extension of Solms's idea: consciousness as freedom from past commitments.
• Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.814
• Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.claim0.809
  TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
• Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.claim0.809