Greater multiscale scale-integration distinguishes wakeful conscious states from anaesthetic states.

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• Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.claim0.764
• Multi-scale coherence may be the cause of aliveness, or only its signature—the causal direction remains open.claim0.764
• General anesthetics are gap junction blockers, consistent with the role of gap junctions in scaling consciousness.claim0.764
  Links anesthesia mechanism to the bioelectric binding model of higher-level Selves.
• The living process must give rise to coherent entities at a middle range of scale.claim0.761
  Asserts middle-range entity emergence as a necessary output of any living process
• Indicators based on potential background conditions for consciousness should be included to mitigate the narrow focus of theories on distinguishing conscious from unconscious states in humans.claim0.756
  Third guideline for deriving indicators; justifies PP-1 and AE-1/AE-2
• All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.752
  Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
• Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.752
  Central methodological claim of the paper.
• A system is conscious if it implements self-organized second-order perception that increases global coherenceclaim0.751
  CIMC's current operational definition, precise enough to generate predictions while subject to revision