Can Protocognitive Capacities Be Found Universally Across Biological

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• Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.795
• If different organizations of nervous tissue can achieve the same functions, the possibility that cognitive capacities, including sentience, can be achieved by other tissues should be considered.claim0.780
  Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
• How Do Protocognitive Modules At Different Scales Enablequestion0.765
• Cognitive capacities including sentience can be achieved by non-neural tissueshypothesis0.765
  Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
• Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.752
  Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
• Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.752
  Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
• Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsclaim0.752
  Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
• 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.hypothesis0.750
  Paper's uncertain extension of mechanistic interpretability universality to consciousness