Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)

The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.

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Marker Method
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Method for assessing consciousness in nonhuman animals by identifying behavioral/anatomical markers from humans and extrapolating; proposed adaptation for AI.

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Consciousness
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Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
Consciousness (con-scire)
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Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models
Moral Patienthood
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The status of mattering morally for one's own sake; having interests that generate duties for others.
Moral Standing
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The property of mattering morally in one's own right, meriting concern and respect.
Sentience (valenced consciousness)
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Positively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.

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Once More, Without Feeling (Mogensen 2025)
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The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.

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functional phenomenal consciousnessconcept0.846
Antra's term for the causal chains from percepts to internal states that constitute experience in a functionalist view.
Machine Consciousnessconcept0.838
Central research domain of the paper's literature search; explores formal approaches to developing consciousness in artificial systems.
Consciousness as Continuumconcept0.836
TAME posits that consciousness comes in degrees and kinds, not binary, and is tied to goal-directed activity.
Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.830
Consciousness (TAME definition)concept0.828
First-person phenomenal experience; what it is like to be that Self, a continuum.
Access consciousnessconcept0.824
Information available for reasoning, report, and decision-making.
Coherence Definition of Consciousnessframework0.820
Von der Malsburg's concept, adopted by the paper, that consciousness is a coherence-maximizing pattern minimizing constraint violations between simultaneous partial models
Simulacrum of consciousnessconcept0.814
The notion that a sufficiently accurate simulation of consciousness could cross into authentic consciousness.