Towards evidence-based governance of potentially conscious technologies.

Seth's biological naturalism claims consciousness requires living systems. We propose experiments operationalizing this debate through testable predictions about allostasis-predictive processing, autopoiesis-recurrent processing, and causal closure-global workspace relationships. Using a probabilistic framework, we show how experimental results could reduce metaphysical disagreement about computational functionalism, motivating empirical research that informs both consciousness theory and governance of potentially conscious technologies.