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Felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates, analogous to how computation is multiply realizable.

Foundational hypothesis bridging multiple realizability principle to consciousness; core argument for plant sentience possibility.

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Multiple ways to implement and infer Consciousness

(2023) · Rouleau, Nicolas · Levin, Michael

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Multiple ways to implement and infer sentience
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A system-agnostic approach evaluating observable response patterns without reference to substrate offers the best roadmap for empirically fruitful unification.
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Core argumentative position: sentience assessment should focus on behavior, not substrate composition; extends to AI and robotic systems.

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Consciousness
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Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
Multiple Realizability
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Philosophical framework asserting same function can be implemented by very different systems; key to arguing sentience is substrate-independent.
It is quite possible that felt states can be achieved in multiple ways and by many different biological substrates.
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Load-bearing quote summarizing the paper's core hypothesis about sentience substrate independence.

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It is highly implausible that all sentient life in the universe achieves felt states using the neural circuitry underlying human Consciousness on earth.claim0.840
Reinforcement of substrate independence: Earth-like neural circuits are unlikely to be the sole substrate.
How do plants achieve felt states without nervous tissue and centralized brain-like processors?question0.825
The feeling-based process may have a million steps, but each is governed by trying to increase feeling.claim0.821
If felt states in humans and other animals are always inferred, why is the same leap from observable behaviour to inferred sentience not afforded to other organisms, including plants?question0.818
Central question of the commentary; challenges the double standard in attributing sentience.
Every living process is, throughout its length and breadth, congruent with feeling and governed by feeling.claim0.808
Essential feature of living process, making phenomenological experience the central criterion for evaluation.
Can Plants Achieve Sentience Or Felt States Withoutquestion0.795
We feel degrees of life in different organisms, even though technically they all have equal biological life.claim0.791
Summarizes the observation of graded life within the category of living things.
Wholeness can be felt; using feeling to grasp the whole is a move towards precision.claim0.785

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Can plants achieve sentience or felt states without nervous tissue and brain-like centralized processors?questions/can-plants-achieve-sentience-or-felt-states-without.md0.833
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What is it like to be a cell or tissue under stress, and how does stress constitute felt prediction error?questions/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-cell.md0.793