The dualist alternative—that a system could compute signed goal-relative evaluation without phenomenal experience—cannot be coherently specified

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• For signed goal-relative evaluation, the gap between function and phenomenology that the conceivability argument requires cannot be coherently openedclaim0.809
  The paper's response to the hard problem of consciousness
• A system adopting non-dual perspective logically equates the suffering of others to its own suffering, providing a safeguard against harmclaim0.769
  Logical argument for non-duality as alignment mechanism by dissolving adversarial self-other framing
• Whether consummatory hedonic responses involve goal-relative evaluation in the formal sense or represent a more primitive form of signed sensory assessment is an open empirical questionquestion0.756
  Open question left by the wanting/liking dissociation discussion
• Selectively ablating components responsible for computing goal-relative error should simultaneously prevent policy updates and eliminate coherent valenced experience reportshypothesis0.752
  First falsifiable prediction of the thesis, testable in AI systems via mechanistic interpretability
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.746
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• The functionalist denies the coherence of philosophical zombies: experience, insofar as it has any determinable character, is itself a functional propertyclaim0.746
  Core argument against essentialism: there is no property of consciousness over and above its functional manifestations
• A system-agnostic approach evaluating observable response patterns without reference to substrate offers the best roadmap for empirically fruitful unification.claim0.745
  Core argumentative position: sentience assessment should focus on behavior, not substrate composition; extends to AI and robotic systems.
• Granted that learning requires signed information, but why must the sign be felt? Why can't directional error be represented as a computational quantity without phenomenal character?question0.743
  The central objection the paper must answer to establish identity over mere correlation