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concept:space-of-possible-mindsSpace of Possible Minds
The enormous option space of forthcoming beings with diverse embodiments of sentience beyond standard Homo sapiens
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- Sharing the World with Digital Mindsintroduces
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- Space of possible beingsrelated_toAll possible agents beyond natural biological species, including engineered and alien ones.
- Space of Possible Bodies and Mindsrelated_toVast option space of designed and evolved combinations of living, non-living, and software components at all scales; future diverse intelligences will be chimeric mixes far beyond natural phylogeny.
- Digital Mindsassociated_withCentral subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
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- The vast space of possible living forms beyond those evolved on Earth.
- Mental or cognitive entities that may or may not depend on brains.
- Ji-An et al.'s characterization of the limited regime in which model self-report succeeds, consistent with this paper's findings
- Conceptual expansion: merging of biology, AI, synthetic morphology, and engineering creates agents with unfamiliar compositions requiring new assessment frameworks.
- A key proposition for the new cosmology: space-matter has the inherent capacity for life and self-connection when centers intensify.
- Figure 1 framework with two axes (design vs. evolution; autonomy level) defining continuous space for classifying possible agents at each scale of organization
- Philosophical field dealing with nature of mind, self, and consciousness.