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quote:all-attributions-of-cognition-i-e-mental-actions-including-sentience-are-always-inferred-on-the-basis-of-embodied-behaviours-including-verbal-self-report-in-humansall attributions of cognition (i.e., mental actions), including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.
Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.
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- Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
- First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
- Claim that the basis for inferring animal sentience is intuitive, not empirical.
- Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
- Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.
- Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.