If we dissolve arbitrary criteria and search for deep invariants across all possible minds and bodies, we will have a morally defensible position.

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• "We will not have certainty, but if we dissolve arbitrary criteria and search for deep invariants across all possible minds and bodies, we will have a morally defensible position."concept0.941
  Concluding practical guidance.
• Sentience assessment should seek deep invariants across possible minds, not arbitrary criteria tied to evolution on Earthclaim0.806
  Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.
• What deep invariants across all possible minds and bodies should form the foundation of universal sentience assessment?question0.801
• What degree of concern and care should we exhibit toward the many diverse agents around us, and what criteria do we use to identify sentience, capacity for suffering, and other properties that have moral implications?question0.775
  Central question motivating the paper.
• Contingent properties like composition, origin, or similarity to human brains should not define ethical consideration for novel agents.claim0.773
  Ethics must be based on empirically-determined cognitive properties (goals, preferences, concerns) rather than parochial markers.
• People of good will can reach substantial agreement about which actions are more structure-preserving or life-bearing.claim0.772
  Empirically grounded assertion that the process is sharable and not arbitrary.
• Consciousness suffices for moral patienthood.claim0.772
  Normative premise of the consciousness route.
• An unfolding process, if faithfully applied, will dissolve any arbitrary initial image because reality and common sense will override it.claim0.770
  Key principle about images vs. unfolding.