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• Expert convergence on the question of AI consciousness is unlikely in the near term.claim0.812
  Supports the premise that societal disagreement will persist rather than be resolved by scientific or philosophical authority.
• Current research examines distributed cognition and AI consciousness separately rather than as integrated phenomena where machine consciousness emerges from inter-agent cognitive processes.claim0.808
  Main interpretive assertion of the search result; identifies the gap between existing literature domains and the novel research direction.
• Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.804
  Central methodological claim of the paper.
• Overlapping consensus on AI-consciousness-related policies is achievable even under persistent disagreement about AI consciousness itself.claim0.801
  Key positive claim about the tractability of the political challenge via deliberation.
• Academic consensus is shifting toward substrate neutrality of cognitive primitives.claim0.800
• Because no one theory of consciousness is currently dominant, assessments of AI systems should draw on multiple theories and treat their conditions as indicators rather than definitive criteria.claim0.796
  Justifies the multi-theory indicator approach rather than committing to a single theory
• Disagreement about AI consciousness is likely to arise and persist in society due to emotional bonds, theoretical considerations, and lack of expert consensus.claim0.791
  Central empirical-sociological claim motivating the paper's inquiry.
• Successful deliberation about AI consciousness requires: seeking overlapping consensus, openness to reasonable compromise, sustaining justified democratic hope, and meeting the burden of recognition.claim0.790
  The paper's concluding four-part synthesis of desiderata for navigating AI consciousness disagreement.