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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.

Paper's uncertain extension of mechanistic interpretability universality to consciousness

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The Machine Consciousness Hypothesis

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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.
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Paper's extension of Olah's Universality Hypothesis to the domain of consciousness

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Universality Hypothesis
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The hypothesis that analogous features and circuits reliably form across different neural network models and tasks

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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?
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Key open question linking mechanistic interpretability universality to machine consciousness

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Central methodological claim of the paper.