All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.

Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Michael Levin

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Consciousness as Continuum
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TAME posits that consciousness comes in degrees and kinds, not binary, and is tied to goal-directed activity.

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Are all cognitive systems conscious?
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TAME's implication that the continuum extends to consciousness.

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Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
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Extension of the Universality Hypothesis to consciousness: if consciousness solves a well-defined computational problem, different systems will discover it independently
Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, consistent with the gradualist framework; there may be no true zero.claim0.830
TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.
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Consciousness comes in degrees and kinds and is not binary.claim0.827
Extends the gradualist perspective to sentience.

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