Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction
Mudrik, Liad
Advances in animal sentience research, neural organoids, and artificial intelligence reinforce the relevance of justifying attributions of consciousness to nonstandard systems. Clarifying the argumentative structure behind these attributions is important for evaluating their validity. This article addresses this issue, concluding that analogical abduction—a form of reasoning combining analogical and abductive elements—is the strongest method for extrapolating consciousness from humans to nonstan