Addition of neural tissue to standard brains will likely result in increased processing capacity due to adaptive design.

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• If different organizations of nervous tissue can achieve the same functions, the possibility that cognitive capacities, including sentience, can be achieved by other tissues should be considered.claim0.797
  Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
• When care is amplified, intelligence is likely to increase as well.hypothesis0.790
  A predictive relation between care and intelligence enhancement.
• Cognitive capacities including sentience can be achieved by non-neural tissueshypothesis0.787
  Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
• Neural bioelectric networks achieve a critical separation of hardware and software: the same molecular substrate can instantiate different informational content based on history, enabling minds to arise from matter.claim0.782
  Foundational for understanding how physiology becomes meaning; decoupling of material state from information content is prerequisite for emergence of cognitive Self.
• All neuronal processing and action selection minimize variational free energy, unifying perception, action, and learning.claim0.776
  Fundamental assertion: single imperative (free energy minimization) explains diverse cognitive and neural phenomena.
• Large parts of the human brain are irrelevant or only weakly relevant to awareness and moral status, suggesting engineering could produce more efficient minds at different scalesclaim0.774
  Supports the mind-scale dimension by noting human brain inefficiency relative to morally relevant properties
• Learning neural networks can enable 'chunking' and rescale problem-solving to higher organizational levels, a mechanism intrinsic to transitions in individuality.hypothesis0.772
• Building AI systems with more indicator properties will increase the likelihood of consciousness.hypothesis0.771
  Guiding hypothesis of the rubric.