Principle of Substrate Non-Discrimination

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Principle of Ontogeny Non-Discriminationconcept0.822
  If two beings have the same functionality and conscious experience differing only in how they came into existence, they have the same moral status
• Substrate Independenceconcept0.745
  Idea that functions can be achieved without contingency of particular material or physical medium; used to argue sentience need not require neural tissue.
• Sentience Can Be Implemented in Multiple Substrateshypothesis0.739
• Mainstream theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral at the primitive level.claim0.738
• Substrate-Neutral Theory of Selfhoodconcept0.738
  A conception of identity that does not depend on specific hardware, under which an agent might seek to preserve its computational process
• How Do Physical Constraints And Substrate Differences Determinequestion0.736
• It is functions all the way down: physical substrate refers only to a particular representational medium implemented as discernible differencesclaim0.732
  Radical functionalist claim grounding computationalism: no substrate is metaphysically privileged over its functional description
• What Is The Minimal Substrate For Cognition Andquestion0.729