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How can we develop reliable sentience criteria for agents exhibiting intelligence in metabolic, transcriptional, and anatomical problem spaces humans do not recognize as intelligent?

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Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural species

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Sentience assessment should seek deep invariants across possible minds, not arbitrary criteria tied to evolution on Earthclaim0.811
Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.
Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.810
Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.805
Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
Non-neural morphogenetic agents satisfy most sentience criteria via electrically active cells rather than neuronsfinding0.804
Empirical basis for expanding sentience frameworks; shows Crump criteria adaptable beyond traditional neurocentric definitions.
Human cognition evolved to detect agency in medium-sized objects at medium speeds in 3D space, limiting recognition of intelligence in unfamiliar substrates.claim0.804
Brain homology to humans as sentience criterionclaim0.801
Traditional criterion inadequate across diverse embodiments; arbitrary constraint frozen in human phylogeny.
Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.801
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
All intelligent agents—biological, technological, or hybrid—can be assessed via stress-care-intelligence loops regardless of substrate.claim0.797

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