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claim:multiple-regions-of-the-soma-and-body-components-may-possess-consciousness-and-deserve-care-equivalent-to-the-verbal-selfMultiple regions of the soma and body components may possess consciousness and deserve care equivalent to the verbal self.
Extends care beyond artificial boundaries of physiological continuity or verbal reportability.
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extracted_from(2023) · Witkowski, Olaf · Doctor, Thomas · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1
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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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- Collective IntelligencesupportsRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
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- Argues for distributed consciousness, supporting extension of care.
- Central question motivating the paper.
- Normative premise of the consciousness route.
- Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
- Consciousness likely distributed across multiscale body components, not localized to brainclaim0.788Organs and tissues employ identical mechanisms as brain; lack of direct verbal report does not negate consciousness in body components.
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- aboutblank_kbCan consciousness and moral status be attributed to distributed systems and body components beyond the verbal self?questions/can-consciousness-and-moral-status-be-attributed-to.md0.828
- aboutblank_kbHow does the multiscale, nested architecture of consciousness within a single body change our understanding of consciousness and moral consideration?questions/how-does-the-multiscale-nested-architecture-of-consciousness.md0.818