Is consciousness determinately present or absent in all cases, or are there borderline cases in between?

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• Even if a case successfully meets all three criteria, this does not necessarily indicate that the corresponding sequence of representations is conscious. Rather, it suggests the observation of a potential 'consciousness' phenomenon within these representations — nothing more.quote0.788
  Load-bearing epistemic caution the author places on the entire analytical framework.
• Consciousness is always happening now — it constitutes what we experience as the immediate present; its minimal state contains only the presence of consciousness itself.claim0.786
  Paper's phenomenological claim about the temporal character of consciousness
• Consciousness remains without an agreed scientific characterization, without a validated theory connecting mechanism to experience, and without criteria for establishing its presence or absence in any systemclaim0.781
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
• Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, consistent with the gradualist framework; there may be no true zero.claim0.779
  TAME's implication that sentience accompanies goal-directed activity, with minimal versions present in particles and scaling up in organized systems.
• Is There Discontinuity Or Continuity In Consciousness Duringquestion0.767
• Does Consciousness Exist On A Continuum Rather Thanquestion0.766
• Consciousness precedes complex cognition and is present in infants before perception, self-modeling, language, and reasoning have maturedhypothesis0.765
  The developmental ordering argument supporting consciousness as the bootstrap mechanism for intelligence
• Consciousness does not imply human-like motives or emotions.claim0.759
  Discussion on implications.