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concept:critical-level-of-description-for-consciousnessCritical Level of Description for Consciousness
The coarsest level that still retains the structure relevant to consciousness, per a given theory.
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- The paper's central original contribution: behavioural, computational, intrinsic causal-structural, organismic, and organism-environment levels.
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- Core interpretive thesis of the report, restated across multiple sections.
- Reinterpretation of the Chinese Room/simulation argument via the coarse-graining framework.
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- Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models
- Opens the discussion on minimal conditions for sentience.
- Core open question: whether cognition is a scaled property present in all living systems or emerges only at certain complexity levels.
- Benchmarks designed to evaluate AI consciousness, which the paper argues are vulnerable to eval awareness inflation.