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concept:sentienceSentience
Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
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Papers (3)
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Claims (1)
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- Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
Concepts (8)
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- Sentient Beingsrelated_toAll beings capable of suffering; the scope of care is argued to extend to all such beings regardless of substrate.
- Sentience (valenced consciousness)related_toPositively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.
- ConsciousnessextendsCore concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- Substrate IndependencesupportsIdea that functions can be achieved without contingency of particular material or physical medium; used to argue sentience need not require neural tissue.
- Multiple RealizabilitysupportsPhilosophical framework asserting same function can be implemented by very different systems; key to arguing sentience is substrate-independent.
- Plant Sentienceassociated_withPossibility that plants experience subjective felt states; main topic of the commentary.
- Moral Patienthoodassociated_withThe status of mattering morally for one's own sake; having interests that generate duties for others.
- Artificial Sufferingassociated_withThe possibility of involuntary inescapable negative valence experience in artificially conscious systems; a central ethical concern for CIMC
Questions (1)
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- Open question from Box 4.
Artifacts (1)
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- The commentary paper by Michael Levin.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Peer-reviewed journal on animal cognition and feeling where this commentary and the target paper appear.
- Attributing subjective experience based on observable embodied behaviours.
- The ability of a self to construct and evaluate models, grasp relationships, and revise representations; operates through the intellect via symbolic reasoning
- Studies public attitudes toward AI moral status
- Quantitative, flexible framework for assessing sentience: nociception, sensory integration, analgesia, trade-offs, self-protection, learning, preference.