What computational function does consciousness serve, and what functional organization is sufficient for its presence?

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• If computational functionalism is correct, then some computations suffice for consciousness and the question is which ones and when they will exist in AI.hypothesis0.847
  Conditional underlying the consciousness route.
• What Is Necessary And Sufficient For Consciousness Toquestion0.836
• We hypothesize that general computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousness, and that successful implementation can be established via analysis or testing.hypothesis0.830
  The central hypothesis of the paper
• General computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousnesshypothesis0.826
  CIMC's central testable hypothesis grounding the entire research program
• will different systems facing similar computational problems converge to similar solutions, including consciousness?question0.812
  Key question for the Machine Consciousness Hypothesis and the universality hypothesis extension
• What is necessary for consciousness?question0.812
  Opens the discussion on minimal conditions for sentience.
• Consciousness functions as a coherence-maximizing pattern, minimizing constraint violations between simultaneously active partial models of reality in working memory and perceptual space.claim0.812
  Paper's functional definition of consciousness, based on von der Malsburg's coherence definition
• Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.800
  Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.