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Moral Duty Based on Care Capacity

Our moral duty toward any being should be based on degree of care they can exhibit toward others, not composition or origin

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Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence

(2022) · Doctor, Thomas · Witkowski, Olaf · Solomonova, Elizaveta · Duane, Bill +1

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Distributed consciousness and moral consideration
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Pluralistic frameworks treating consciousness as non-unitary, scale-spanning, and foundational to ethical obligations across composite beings and their components.

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Care
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Engagement and concern in response to stress; the activating driver that transforms intelligence from mere capacity into problem-solving action.

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