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How to discover the natural kind of consciousness – and test for its presence – under population shifts

2026-07-24

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<p>Debates about artificial consciousness are often framed in terms of verdicts: whether a given system is or is not conscious, and which criteria or theories can deliver such judgments. This paper argues that this framing obscures a more fundamental epistemic challenge. Consciousness science has largely been developed within a narrow population – humans – under background assumptions that support evidential gener...

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525a3b33-9dd4-5b98-a99e-79de07b084b3
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10.31234/osf.io/hxcyf_v2
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