Progress in theory and practice requires a novel conception of 'machines as they could be,' based on the profound lessons of biology at all scales.

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• Progress in machine behavior science and biohybrid engineering breaks down the simplistic dualism of life vs. machine, revealing a continuum of emergence, rational control, and agency.claim0.824
  Second central claim: life and machine form a continuous multidimensional space, not discrete bins
• 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.hypothesis0.808
  The central hypothesis of the paper
• Process theories can be derived from variational principles in a straightforward manner with biological plausibility.hypothesis0.806
  Paper's core methodological hypothesis: gap between normative and process-level theories can be bridged.
• "We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity."concept0.799
  Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964); establishes design's relationship to intelligence amplification and early AI discourse.
• Rahwan et al. 2019 called for a new field 'machine behavior' in which best explanations of machines combine holistic methods from ethology, social sciences, and cognitive science.finding0.798
  Cited as the key precedent motivating the paper's framework
• Conceptual advances in the links between machine learning and evolution now provide quantitative formalisms with which to begin to develop testable models of collective intelligence across scales.claim0.798
  Asserts that the time is ripe for formal models.
• General computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousnesshypothesis0.797
  CIMC's central testable hypothesis grounding the entire research program
• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.794
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach