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claim:consciousness-likely-distributed-across-multiscale-body-components-not-localized-to-brainConsciousness likely distributed across multiscale body components, not localized to brain
Organs and tissues employ identical mechanisms as brain; lack of direct verbal report does not negate consciousness in body components.
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extracted_from(2023) · Witkowski, Olaf · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1
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- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
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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.
- Framework treating consciousness as emergent from hierarchical body components rather than brain-localized, grounding universal care ethics in non-self recognition across scales.
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- Recognition of multiscale embodied intelligence naturally extends care ethics to all sentient beingssupportsOnce we acknowledge consciousness in non-verbal body parts, we must extend same care to other bodies; physiological continuity is artificial demarcation.
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- Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.claim0.808TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
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