Generalizing frameworks for sentience beyond natural species

Generalizing Data in Natural Language

This paper concerns the development of a new direction in machine learning, called natural induction, which requires from computergenerated knowledge not only to have high predictive accuracy, but also to be in human-oriented forms, such as natural language descriptions and/or graphical representations. Such forms facilitate understanding and acceptance of the learned knowledge, and making ment...

Sentience Everywhere

Philosophical understandings of consciousness divide into emergentist positions (when the universe is sufficiently organized and complex it gives rise to consciousness) vs. panpsychism (consciousness pervades the universe). A leading emergentist position derives from autopoietic theory of Maturana and Varela: to be alive is to have cognition, one component of which is sentience. Here, reflectin...

A Theory of Sentience

Sentience and Pain in Invertebrates

Generalizing Halfspaces Generalizing Halfspaces

Restricted-orientation convexity is the study of geometric objects whose intersection with lines from some fixed set is empty or connected. We have studied the properties of restricted-orientation convex sets and demonstrated that this notion is a generalization of standard convexity. We now describe a restricted-orientation generalization of halfspaces and explore properties of these generaliz...