Consciousness precedes complex cognition and is present in infants before perception, self-modeling, language, and reasoning have matured

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• Consciousness is not the result of mental architecture and cognitive ability, but its prerequisite — a necessary precondition for complex learning and intelligent behavior.claim0.848
  Genesis Hypothesis claim that consciousness forms before rather than from cognition
• Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.claim0.847
• Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.823
• Human consciousness is tied to a biological learning algorithm — the simplest algorithm discoverable by evolutionary search to train a self-organizing biological substrate to become intelligent.claim0.823
  Core theoretical claim connecting consciousness to biological learning
• We tentatively hypothesize that if an artificial system were trained to perform the same tasks leading to consciousness formation in a human infant, the system would exhibit consciousness as well, by analogy with the Universality Hypothesis.hypothesis0.821
  Paper's uncertain extension of mechanistic interpretability universality to consciousness
• Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.817
• All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.815
  Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
• 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 systemclaim0.813
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program