Can Rational Engineering Approaches Generate True Minds As

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• How Can Bioengineering Generate Novel Embodied Minds Andquestion0.779
• Can Engineering Novel Embodied Minds With Cognitive Capacitiesquestion0.742
• Can Artificial Systems Achieve Genuine Cognition And Consciousnessquestion0.742
• Can Nonneural Biological Systems Exhibit Genuine Cognition Andquestion0.741
• Evolved vs. designed origin is not a definitive guide to agency; rationally engineered systems can be true cognitive agents.claim0.735
  Rejects the notion that only evolutionary history confers intrinsic motivation or 'true' cognition.
• Can Artificial Systems Instantiate Genuine Cognitive Processes Orquestion0.733
• Preference Engineering of Digital Mindsconcept0.731
  The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
• Large parts of the human brain are irrelevant or only weakly relevant to awareness and moral status, suggesting engineering could produce more efficient minds at different scalesclaim0.731
  Supports the mind-scale dimension by noting human brain inefficiency relative to morally relevant properties