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It is quite possible that felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates.

Load-bearing quote summarizing the paper's core hypothesis about sentience substrate independence.

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Multiple ways to implement and infer sentience
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Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.
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Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.

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Felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates, analogous to how computation is multiply realizable.
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Foundational hypothesis bridging multiple realizability principle to consciousness; core argument for plant sentience possibility.

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