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concept:astronomically-large-space-of-possible-sentient-beings-beyond-natural-evolutionAstronomically large space of possible sentient beings beyond natural evolution
Conceptual expansion: merging of biology, AI, synthetic morphology, and engineering creates agents with unfamiliar compositions requiring new assessment frameworks.
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- Michael Levinstudies
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- Quantitative, operationalizable criteria proposed by Crump et al. that Levin argues can be generalized beyond natural species.
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- Bioroboticsassociated_withIntegration of cultured biological tissue (e.g., brains) with robotic bodies; reveals proto-cognitive capacities of cells in novel configurations.
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- All possible agents beyond natural biological species, including engineered and alien ones.
- All beings capable of suffering; the scope of care is argued to extend to all such beings regardless of substrate.
- Vast option space of designed and evolved combinations of living, non-living, and software components at all scales; future diverse intelligences will be chimeric mixes far beyond natural phylogeny.
- The enormous option space of forthcoming beings with diverse embodiments of sentience beyond standard Homo sapiens
- Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
- The vast space of possible living forms beyond those evolved on Earth.
- The Multiple Realizability of Sentience in Living Systems and Beyond (Rouleau & Levin, eNeuro 2023)concept0.765Paper arguing sentience can be realized in many substrates, directly relevant to the diverse intelligence argument
- Alexander's ontological claim that space itself becomes progressively more alive depending on the recursive structures built within it