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Only views that deny any discoverable psychophysical mapping are excluded from the framework, and this exclusion is methodological rather than metaphysical

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From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness

(2026) · Shamil Chandaria · Arvo Muñoz Morán · Fernando Rosas · Anil Seth +10

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From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness
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If a system's experience is discoverably fixed by its organisation, then consciousness attribution is a tractable empirical/structural question; if not, no examination of the system can settle it
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The mapping question is tractable and metaphysics-neutral: it can be pursued on shared terms regardless of whether physicalism, idealism, panpsychism, neutral monism, or property dualism is true
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Central argumentative move of Section 3 separating hard problem from mapping problem.

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Functional and phenomenal introspection are distinguishable, and whether they correlate in machines is an open question.claim0.773
Core conceptual distinction introduced at the start; defines the paper's central problem.
The framework's methodological contributions could be adapted to target arbitrary non-psychological attributes given custom evaluation criteriahypothesis0.770
Generalization hypothesis stated in introduction; not tested in paper
The proposed framework erases artificial distinctions between organisms and machines by framing all physical constructs as in-formed, to varying degrees, by patterns from the latent spaceclaim0.759
Central thesis statement of the abstract.
Discoverable Psychophysical Mappingconcept0.756
The one methodological assumption of the framework: organisation lawfully and discoverably fixes experience.
Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.751
Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
Is Developing Principled Frameworks For Recognizing Sentience Inquestion0.751
What frameworks can identify sentience in radically unfamiliar agents without familiar touchstones of evolution or anatomy?question0.749
Central question driving the paper; necessitated by imminent proliferation of cyborgs, synthetic organisms, and AI.
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 systemclaim0.748
CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program