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Jonathan Birch, Précis of The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

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Strongly supportive overall of Birch’s broad tent Sentience Project, I offer an alternative dyadic, single-class, two-stage process based on estimating the probability for sentience, and the associated confidence, for any individual or taxonomic group. I criticize Birch’s narrow computational framework when addressing the question of algorithmic sentience; there are alternative approaches.

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Author Biography

Christof Koch has investigated the footprints of consciousness in the brain and its theoretical basis as a neuroscientist for the past forty years. His latest book is Then I am Myself the World (2024). He is a board member and has a financial interest in Intrinsic Powers, a company developing a clinical device for the routine assessment of consciousness in patients. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1941