The specificity problem recurs at every level of the hierarchy and inside every indicator, since asking whether a system 'has' a given feature already takes a stand on which parts of the human realisation are essential

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Simple problems require systems that expose simple solutions; forcing complex solutions signals misaligned abstraction level.claim0.784
  Parlog's merge process for client-server is unnecessarily complex; Linda's tuple operations remain flexible across problem variants.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.772
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• The challenge of the Hard Problem is not in explaining it away but in giving an account of phenomenality as the specific kind of structured representation it isclaim0.772
  CIMC's distinctive position distinguishing itself from eliminativist and deflationary responses to the Hard Problem
• Representation may be a fundamental principle of living systems, but it is difficult to generalize formally because it appears to vanish at the molecular level.claim0.769
  Central open theoretical tension raised in the discussion.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.quote0.767
  Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.
• Precise characterization of the perceptual representational format — specific, sustained, globally constitutive — remains an open problemconcept0.767
  Acknowledged gap in CIMC's theory: the exact computational description of the perceptual regime is not yet specified
• what is the precise characterization of the perceptual representational format in which information exists as a specific, sustained, globally constitutive structure?question0.765
  Open theoretical problem CIMC acknowledges: precisely characterizing the representational format of perception
• "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."quote0.763
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach