We hypothesize that consciousness may be at the heart of a universal biological learning algorithm — one that runs on self-organizing groups of communicating cells sharing evolutionary incentives — and that it creates rather than results from organized mental architecture.

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• 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.claim0.900
  Core theoretical claim connecting consciousness to biological learning
• Consciousness is the simplest learning algorithm discoverable by evolutionary search to train a self-organizing biological substrate to become intelligent in service of agencyhypothesis0.892
  CIMC's specific account of what consciousness is and why it evolved
• We hypothesize it is possible to search for the consciousness algorithm by recreating analogous conditions of self-organizing information processing on digital computer hardware while posing tasks requiring intelligent agency.hypothesis0.841
  The Extended Machine Consciousness Hypothesis as an experimental program
• 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.hypothesis0.836
  Paper's uncertain extension of mechanistic interpretability universality to consciousness
• If the Universality Hypothesis is correct, an artificial system trained to perform the same tasks that lead to consciousness in a human infant might exhibit consciousness as well.claim0.833
  Paper's extension of Olah's Universality Hypothesis to the domain of consciousness
• Different learning systems facing similar computational problems will converge to similar consciousness-like solutions, including potentially biological and artificial systemshypothesis0.831
  Extension of the Universality Hypothesis to consciousness: if consciousness solves a well-defined computational problem, different systems will discover it independently
• If we translate the Universality Hypothesis to the problem of consciousness, would it follow that an artificial system trained to perform the same tasks leading to consciousness formation in a human infant would exhibit consciousness as well?question0.826
  Key open question linking mechanistic interpretability universality to machine consciousness
• Consciousness features occur substrate-neutrally across brains, unconventional embodiments, and information-processing systems.claim0.826