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concept:plant-sentience-is-likely-to-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-consciousness-yet-unknownPlant sentience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of consciousness yet unknown.
Load-bearing summary statement suggesting vastness of potential consciousness forms beyond current conception.
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- Load-bearing concluding statement about the broader implications of substrate-independent sentience.
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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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- Possibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
- The science of consciousness should remain open to the possibility of minds in unconventional embodiments.hypothesis0.771Normative conclusion and forward-looking hypothesis based on theoretical and empirical evidence reviewed.
- Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
- Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience.
- Second foundational pillar of TAME; supports basal cognition and rejects brain-centrism.