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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run4-c4-c1Distributed consciousness and moral consideration
Pluralistic frameworks treating consciousness as non-unitary, scale-spanning, and foundational to ethical obligations across composite beings and their components.
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- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds2 members
- RESEARCH-VECTORS.md2 members
- 2026-05-09_briefing_for_ozero.md1 member
- Koan Battery: Measuring Reflective Mode Accessibility in AI1 member
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Dukkha, care, and Intelligence1 member
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence1 member
- Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models1 member
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously1 member
- Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence1 member
- 2024 03 07 Stefan Lesser Kay 1984 Opening the Hood of a Word Processor.pdf 4145871 member
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Claims (12)
- We do not claim to measure consciousness; the battery measures a reproducible, prompt-sensitive reflective mode.Epistemic boundary-setting by authors: distinguishes behavioral traces from internal states.
- A typical modern human is a patchwork of many diverse consciousnesses, only one of which verbally reports its states.Applies the multi-scale agency view to human cognition, suggesting non-unitary selves.
- Consciousness also comes in degrees and kinds, and is fundamentally tied to goal-directed activity.TAME's gradualist stance extends to sentience; goal-directedness is the key.
- Consciousness and capacity for suffering may be distributed across multiple scales within composite beings, not limited to single 'I'.
- Consciousness suffices for moral patienthood.Normative premise of the consciousness route.
- Moral Duty Based on Care CapacityOur moral duty toward any being should be based on degree of care they can exhibit toward others, not composition or origin
- Multiple regions of the soma and body components may possess consciousness and deserve care equivalent to the verbal self.Extends care beyond artificial boundaries of physiological continuity or verbal reportability.
- Results could arguably provide evidence for a form of access consciousness but do not directly speak to phenomenal consciousnessInterpretation regarding machine consciousness debates.
- Understanding System Internals Enables Consciousness Questions
- Consciousness is prior to and independent of personal ownership or individual minds.
- Modes and rituals of cognitive invocation matter: how we ask determines what arrives, foundational to soul-amplifying technology.
- The next technological frontier is amplifying conscious experience itself, not just cognitive capacity.