finding
active
finding:the-operations-and-functional-principles-of-most-contemporary-theories-of-consciousness-are-not-confined-to-neural-substratesThe operations and functional principles of most contemporary theories of consciousness are not confined to neural substrates.
Primary empirical result from comparative analysis of major consciousness theories.
Source paper
extracted_from(2026) · Nicolas Rouleau · Michael Levin
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Claims (1)
claim
- Central empirical claim: authors surveyed major ToCs and found their operations are not confined to neural substrates.
Hypotheses (1)
hypothesis
- Normative conclusion and forward-looking hypothesis based on theoretical and empirical evidence reviewed.
Communities (2)
community
- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Framework arguing consciousness mechanisms transcend neural implementation, applicable to diverse physical systems including molecular and cellular architectures.
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.
- This is the main empirical result from mapping the operational characteristics of popular theories of consciousness.
- The core argument that ToC functional principles do not pick out brains as a privileged substrate for inner perspective.
- Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.820Central methodological claim of the paper.
- Paper's argument that all viable theories of consciousness implicitly rely on structural-functional criteria
- CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
Cross-corpus bridges (4)
same_concept_as · Nomic cosineExternal markdown files that talk about the same concept as this entity.
- aboutblank_kbCan cognition and learning occur in non-neural substrates, and what are the substrate-independent principles?questions/can-cognition-and-learning-occur-in-nonneural-substrates.md0.836
- aboutblank_kbCan consciousness be attributed to systems beyond brains and neurons?questions/can-consciousness-be-attributed-to-systems-beyond-brains.md0.826
- aboutblank_kbCan principles of neuroscience be successfully generalized to non-neural biological systems and synthetic life?questions/can-principles-of-neuroscience-be-successfully-generalized-to.md0.799
- aboutblank_kbCan the principles of behavioral neuroscience be generalized to understand and control outcomes in other problem spaces like physiology, transcription, and morphology?questions/can-the-principles-of-behavioral-neuroscience-be-generalized.md0.799