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concept:plant-sentiencePlant Sentience
Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
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Papers (1)
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- Multiple ways to implement and infer sentienceassociated_withmentions
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- Michael Levinassociated_with
- Nicolas Rouleauassociated_withCo-author; neuroscientist studying embodied and bioengineered tissues to model neural diseases and minimal cognitive systems.
- Calvoassociated_withCo-author with Segundo-Ortín of paper on plant sentience reviewed in this commentary.
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- Basal Cognitionassociated_withAn 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.
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- Substrate Independencemembers_of
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- Load-bearing concluding statement about the broader implications of substrate-independent sentience.
- Consciousnessassociated_withCore concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- Sentienceassociated_withCentral concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
- Animal Sentiencesubtype_ofPeer-reviewed journal on animal cognition and feeling where this commentary and the target paper appear.
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- Commentary on Segundo-Ortin & Calvo (2023) arguing for plant sentience via multiple realizability and substrate independence, published in Animal Sentience.
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- Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
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- Load-bearing summary statement suggesting vastness of potential consciousness forms beyond current conception.
- Contested domain of basal cognition; highlights insufficient criteria for assessing sentience across diverse substrates.
- Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience.
- All beings capable of suffering; the scope of care is argued to extend to all such beings regardless of substrate.
- The ability of a self to construct and evaluate models, grasp relationships, and revise representations; operates through the intellect via symbolic reasoning