The criterion of physiological continuity is artificial, as we are linked in many non-conscious ways just as our body components are linked.

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• what criterion should determine that a conscious being is to be treated as equivalent to a human?question0.787
  Ethical question about the threshold for full moral status of artificial conscious agents
• Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.778
• Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.776
• Possibly the most basic and necessary feature of any living process is the fact that it goes gradually.claim0.775
  Core thesis of the chapter: gradual, step-by-step progression is the bedrock of life.
• 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 systemclaim0.767
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
• Consciousness is a phenomenon we have partial sensors for; building better sensors is a research and engineering question.claim0.765
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.763
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.763
  Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.