"There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being: all known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."

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• There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being.claim0.924
  All known minds reside in composite physical systems.
• All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.817
  Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
• Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.812
  Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
• "Continuum of cognitive capacities—no binary categories, no bright line separating true cognition from 'just physics.'"quote0.803
  Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.802
  Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
• We are confronted not with one but at least three notions of reality: psychological reality (representations in the mind), causal reality (functional mechanisms), and physical reality (physics as special case of causal model).claim0.800
  Paper's ontological tripartition used to dissolve the Hard Problem
• Consciousness remains without an agreed scientific characterization, without a validated theory connecting mechanism to experience, and without criteria for establishing its presence or absence in any systemclaim0.794
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
• Consciousness is not the result of mental architecture and cognitive ability, but its prerequisite — a necessary precondition for complex learning and intelligent behavior.claim0.793
  Genesis Hypothesis claim that consciousness forms before rather than from cognition