# Report on Candidate Computational Indicators for Conscious Valenced Experience

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16696 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.16696/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 76 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Apr 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.03748/) (2018)
- [Deep Predictive Coding Networks for Video Prediction and Unsupervised Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.08104/) (2016)
- [Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.08708/) (2023)
- [Predictive Coding: Towards a Future of Deep Learning beyond Backpropagation?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.09467/) (2022)
- [A Theory of Consciousness from a Theoretical Computer Science Perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.13704/) (2021)
- [Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.14787/) (2022)
- [Operationalising Representation in Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.08193/) (2023)
- [A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.09850/) (2020)
- [Analog Computation and Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.05965/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence? A Framework for Classifying Objections and Constraints](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.16582/) (2025)
- [From cacophony to hierarchy: a principled framework for assessing AI consciousness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.35618/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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.