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Consciousness

Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.

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Frameworks (4)

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  • Tame Technological Approach To Mind Everywhere
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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.
  • Basal Cognition
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    An interdisciplinary research framework that reconceptualizes intelligence as observer-relative problem-solving competencies existing on a continuum from simple to highly complex, extending cognition beyond neural systems to pre-neural and non-neural substrates including microbial control loops, plants, tissues, and cellular collectives. It grounds the study of evolutionary and developmental origins of cognitive and behavioral capacities by linking information processing at the chemical and cellular level to classical cognition, and provides philosophical foundations for understanding agency and goal-directedness in systems without nervous systems.
  • Integrated Information Theory
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    Tononi et al. framework quantifying consciousness via integration; provides mathematical tools for measuring agent complexity.
  • Variational Ecology
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    Framework for physics of sentient systems; cited for understanding consciousness across substrates.

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Concepts (12)

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  • Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)
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    The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
  • Consciousness (con-scire)
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    Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models
  • Access consciousness
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    Information available for reasoning, report, and decision-making.
  • Self-Referential Processing
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    The central experimental manipulation: directing a model to attend to its own cognitive activity
  • Sentience
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    Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
  • Plant Sentience
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    Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
  • Theory Of Mind
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    Cognitive capacity attributed to humans and animals; referenced as basis for mentalism intuitions.
  • Minimal Phenomenal Experience (MPE)
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    Stable mode of experience with persistent absence of a subjective centre; connected to zero-person perspective and pruned sigma
  • Theory of Mind Capacity
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    The cognitive ability to attribute mental states to self and others; used as a proxy domain for investigating consciousness in LLMs.
  • Classical Conditioning
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    Learning mechanism observed in plants; cited as evidence of cognitive function.
  • Psyche
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    The compound structure integrating consciousness, mind, self, agency, and motivational dynamics in a single system; required for a complete artificial person
  • Sapience
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    The ability of a self to construct and evaluate models, grasp relationships, and revise representations; operates through the intellect via symbolic reasoning

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  • Machine Consciousnessconcept0.847
    Central research domain of the paper's literature search; explores formal approaches to developing consciousness in artificial systems.
  • Contents of Consciousnessconcept0.844
    Percepts, feelings, thoughts, imaginations, and intuitions — the elements that can appear in conscious awareness
  • Consciousness as Continuumconcept0.841
    TAME posits that consciousness comes in degrees and kinds, not binary, and is tied to goal-directed activity.
  • What is necessary for consciousness?question0.841
    Opens the discussion on minimal conditions for sentience.
  • Consciousness Detectionconcept0.835
    Current research focus in literature; contrasted with the need for systematic introspective processes.
  • Consciousness (TAME definition)concept0.825
    First-person phenomenal experience; what it is like to be that Self, a continuum.
  • Consciousness as Freedom From Pasthypothesis0.820
    Speculative hypothesis: consciousness may be the subjective experience of continuous self-construction freed from commitment to prior interpretations.
  • Human Consciousness Hypothesisframework0.819
    Component of MCH stating consciousness is a specific dynamic representation in the human mind characterizable by phenomenology and functionality