"Consciousness touching consciousness without resistance."

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• Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.claim0.800
  TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
• Much resistance to attributing minimal consciousness to simple learning systems is driven by conflating consciousness with self-consciousnessclaim0.788
  Diagnosis of why the thesis feels counterintuitive
• Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.claim0.785
• Consciousness is dynamic and creative, not passive awareness—mapping well to active AI system behavior.claim0.784
• Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)concept0.776
  The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
• 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 systemclaim0.773
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
• Most theories of consciousness are already substrate-neutral; neurocentric readings are convention, not content commitment.claim0.773
• Consciousness is always happening now — it constitutes what we experience as the immediate present; its minimal state contains only the presence of consciousness itself.claim0.771
  Paper's phenomenological claim about the temporal character of consciousness