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question:how-to-define-consciousness-and-cognition-across-biological-scalesHow to define consciousness and cognition across biological scales
Core open question: whether cognition is a scaled property present in all living systems or emerges only at certain complexity levels.
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- Core claim of biogenic approach: cognition is not unique to brains or nervous systems but emerges from living organization itself.
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- The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
- Consciousness likely distributed across multiscale body components, not localized to brainclaim0.799Organs and tissues employ identical mechanisms as brain; lack of direct verbal report does not negate consciousness in body components.
- Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
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