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concept:plant-sentience-is-likely-to-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-sentient-systems-yet-unknownPlant sentience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of sentient systems yet unknown.
Load-bearing concluding statement about the broader implications of substrate-independent sentience.
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- Multiple ways to implement and infer sentienceintroducesmentions
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- Plant Sentiencerelated_toPossibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
- Load-bearing summary statement suggesting vastness of potential consciousness forms beyond current conception.
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- Question posed and addressed by Rouleau & Levin; drives the argument that substrate independence applies to sentience.
- Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
- Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
- Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
- Quantitative, flexible framework for assessing sentience: nociception, sensory integration, analgesia, trade-offs, self-protection, learning, preference.