Report on Candidate Computational Indicators for Conscious Valenced Experience
arXiv:2404.16696v13 citationsh-index: 4
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This work provides a theoretical framework for understanding conscious experience, but it is incremental as it compiles and refines existing ideas without new empirical results.
The report identifies 13 computational conditions argued to be necessary for conscious valenced experience, based on a synthesis of existing literature from fields like animal sentience, neuroscience, and AI.
This report enlists 13 functional conditions cashed out in computational terms that have been argued to be constituent of conscious valenced experience. These are extracted from existing empirical and theoretical literature on, among others, animal sentience, medical disorders, anaesthetics, philosophy, evolution, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.