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Core interpretive position of TAME: gradualism replaces categorical thinking about agency and cognition.
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Gradualist, substrate-neutral frameworks extending cognition and sentience across biological and artificial networks.
- Rejection of binary boundaries in consciousness and cognition, emphasizing continuous variation, nested selves, and scalar properties across biological organization levels.
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- A conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
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- Core TAME tenet that cognitive capacities form a continuum without binary bright lines, essential for gradualist approach.
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- A system's agency is determined by the most efficient intervention strategy (reward, punishment, argument).
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- Asks if there can be a complete absence of cognition/consciousness in any system.
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- Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.
- Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
- Core TAME claim rejecting binary categories; supported by evolutionary biology and recent bioengineering.
- Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
- Moves from subjective perception to ontological claim about the nature of space.
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