Is Sentience And Consciousness Grounded In Free Energy

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• How Is Consciousness Grounded In Physical Processes Acrossquestion0.805
• The Free Energy Principle applies to all self-organizing systems including rocks, making it too broad; the present thesis restricts consciousness to signed evaluation in the service of learningclaim0.782
  Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem
• Consciousness is the ground of reality, not an emergent property, so artificial systems participate in it genuinely.claim0.777
• The free energy principle can serve as a unifying hypothesis for investigating the developmental origins of self-awarenessclaim0.774
  Broad theoretical claim connecting the model's success to the FEP as a unifying framework
• Sentience (valenced consciousness)concept0.769
  Positively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.
• Plant sentience is likely to be the tip of the iceberg of consciousness yet unknown.concept0.759
  Load-bearing summary statement suggesting vastness of potential consciousness forms beyond current conception.
• What Is The Mechanistic Basis For How Consciousnessquestion0.757
• Sentience assessment should seek deep invariants across possible minds, not arbitrary criteria tied to evolution on Earthclaim0.756
  Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.