Brooks’s conceptual integrity comprises orthogonality, propriety, and generality.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Contingent properties like composition, origin, or similarity to human brains should not define ethical consideration for novel agents.claim0.758
  Ethics must be based on empirically-determined cognitive properties (goals, preferences, concerns) rather than parochial markers.
• Conceptual Integrityconcept0.745
  Fred Brooks's notion of coherence in design, with criteria orthogonality, propriety, generality.
• ReflectiveBench's dimensions should draw from Alexander's 15 properties to lock editorial heritage and recruit aligned contributors.claim0.739
• An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.claim0.739
  Alexander's assertion that judgments about whether interventions preserve wholeness are structural and mathematical rather than subjective or romantic.
• Verbal reports, homology of structure or materials, phylogenetic provenance are all insufficient to make dependable conclusions across the space of possible agents.claim0.736
  Summary assertion that traditional evidence fails for novel agents.
• Most independent dimension pair is aesthetic_response and boundary_awareness (rho=0.553); most correlated is prediction_error and conceptual_crystallization (rho=0.886)finding0.735
  Characterizes internal structure of the six scoring dimensions
• Crump et al. (2022) offer a well-argued example of an essential development: a rigorous framework for assessing sentience from the perspective of moral concern over an agent's welfare.claim0.731
  Levin's endorsement of the target paper's contribution.
• "There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named"quote0.731
  Verbatim quote from Alexander (1979, p.19) defining the Quality Without a Name, used to motivate the exploration.