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concept:specificity-problemSpecificity Problem
Shevlin's problem of which features of the human case are criterial versus contingent for consciousness; recurs at every level.
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- Henry Shevlinintroduces
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- Explicit counter-caveat to the convergence thesis, connecting to the specificity problem.
- Explains a persistent interpretive difficulty for all indicator assessments.
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- Indicator specificity: few non-conscious systems have it; sensitivity: few conscious systems lack it
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- The risk that any indicator merely correlated with consciousness can be artificially implemented without the system actually being conscious
- Adapted control task metric measuring difference between odds-ratio on original task and arbitrary-label control task
- The difficulty that broad FEP formulations technically apply to rocks maintaining thermodynamic equilibrium; avoided by the present thesis
- The directness of motivation by practical concerns, characteristic of living processes in the examples.
- Formal notion of what constitutes an individual agent; bridges Buddhist and information-theoretic perspectives.