If the 4E organism-environment framework is correct, the path toward AI consciousness runs through robotics and embodied developmental learning rather than larger language models

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• It is essential now to develop frameworks that pick out what is deep and fundamental about sentient beings – not frozen accidents of evolution on the N=1 example of the phylogenetic path of life on Earth.claim0.772
  Core prescription for future sentience frameworks.
• Under organismic functionalism, a conscious AI would need to be something much more like an artificial self-maintaining organism than a sophisticated computerhypothesis0.766
  Conditional implication of Level 4 indicators for AI design.
• What is the functional distinction between simple language models and multicellular organisms, and can generative AI harness that property to achieve long-range order?question0.765
  Core motivating question; drives investigation of topological differences between biological and artificial systems
• There is no consensus ethical framework for the creation of new sentient minds — neither for biological children nor for AI — that is grounded in principled theoryquestion0.765
  Identified as a major unsolved problem that AI makes newly urgent
• Human civilization cannot survive without solving the problem of developing principled ethical frameworks for relating to the forthcoming diversity of minds and bodies.claim0.761
  Stakes-setting claim for the urgency of developing diverse intelligence ethics
• Developing principled sentience frameworks is an existential requirement for humanity as it encounters diverse intelligences.claim0.759
• Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.757
• The humanity of the environment comes about only when the processes are morphogenetic, are whole-seeking, are placed in a context that gradually allows people to work towards a living whole.claim0.756