if consciousness emerges from self-organization rather than top-down learning paradigms, how should we think about alignment?

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• We hypothesize that consciousness may be at the heart of a universal biological learning algorithm — one that runs on self-organizing groups of communicating cells sharing evolutionary incentives — and that it creates rather than results from organized mental architecture.hypothesis0.814
  The Genesis Hypothesis as explicit predictive conjecture
• The science of consciousness should remain open to the possibility of minds in unconventional embodiments.hypothesis0.804
  Normative conclusion and forward-looking hypothesis based on theoretical and empirical evidence reviewed.
• Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.claim0.803
  TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
• The science of consciousness should remain open to minds in unconventional embodiments.claim0.802
  The normative conclusion of the paper, urging the field to not prematurely exclude non-brain substrates.
• Much resistance to attributing minimal consciousness to simple learning systems is driven by conflating consciousness with self-consciousnessclaim0.799
  Diagnosis of why the thesis feels counterintuitive
• Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.794
• Consciousness precedes complex cognition and is present in infants before perception, self-modeling, language, and reasoning have maturedhypothesis0.791
  The developmental ordering argument supporting consciousness as the bootstrap mechanism for intelligence
• Human consciousness is tied to a biological learning algorithm — the simplest algorithm discoverable by evolutionary search to train a self-organizing biological substrate to become intelligent.claim0.790
  Core theoretical claim connecting consciousness to biological learning