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institute:cifar-program-in-brain-mind-and-consciousnessCIFAR Program in Brain, Mind and Consciousness
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- Major consciousness science center directed by Ned Block and David Chalmers
- Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.731Central methodological claim of the paper.
- Core theoretical claim connecting consciousness to biological learning
- The Genesis Hypothesis as explicit predictive conjecture
- Extension of the Universality Hypothesis to consciousness: if consciousness solves a well-defined computational problem, different systems will discover it independently
- Opening motivating question addressed by the paper's thesis
- Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
- The organization whose research program this whitepaper describes, dedicated to building and analyzing computational systems to test theories of consciousness