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 system

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• Consciousness is not the result of mental architecture and cognitive ability, but its prerequisite — a necessary precondition for complex learning and intelligent behavior.claim0.844
  Genesis Hypothesis claim that consciousness forms before rather than from cognition
• Consciousness does not imply human-like motives or emotions.claim0.838
  Discussion on implications.
• 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.hypothesis0.837
  The central hypothesis of the paper
• Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.832
• The science of consciousness should remain open to the possibility of minds in unconventional embodiments.hypothesis0.831
  Normative conclusion and forward-looking hypothesis based on theoretical and empirical evidence reviewed.
• Consciousness is a phenomenon we have partial sensors for; building better sensors is a research and engineering question.claim0.828
• Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.828
• 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 createsclaim0.826
  CIMC's account of minimal phenomenal experience as the target for research and construction