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Recognition of multiscale embodied intelligence naturally extends care ethics to all sentient beings

Once we acknowledge consciousness in non-verbal body parts, we must extend same care to other bodies; physiological continuity is artificial demarcation.

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Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence

(2023) · Witkowski, Olaf · Doctor, Thomas · 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 multiscale embodied ethics
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Framework treating consciousness as emergent from hierarchical body components rather than brain-localized, grounding universal care ethics in non-self recognition across scales.

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Bodhisattva
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Classic Buddhist model for cultivation of care and intelligence; promises care for all sentient beings across space and time; demonstrates expansion of concern beyond self.

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Consciousness likely distributed across multiscale body components, not localized to brain
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Organs and tissues employ identical mechanisms as brain; lack of direct verbal report does not negate consciousness in body components.

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A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.814
Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.
All embodied intelligence is collective intelligence, from ant colonies to the neurons of the human brain to the cells building the body itselfclaim0.805
Second lesson drawn from embryogenesis, foundational to treating body-building and mind-building as symmetric processes.
Care can function as a universal driver of intelligence itself: as AI broadens the range of suffering it seeks to address, it expands its cognitive boundaryclaim0.785
Doctor et al. claim adopted by the paper linking boundless care to expanding AI cognitive scope
Care is required to engender the dynamics that enable truly revolutionary cognitive developments, such as those leading to superintelligence or artificial general intelligence.hypothesis0.777
Proposed as a necessary condition for radical cognitive breakthroughs.
All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.775
Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
How Should Ethics Be Extended Across Multiscale Embodimentsquestion0.770
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?question0.765
Central question motivating the paper.
Care is the mechanism by which intelligence scales and produces externalized artifacts that other people can use.claim0.764

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Can we extend care and love to increasingly different forms of intelligence and life?questions/can-we-extend-care-and-love-to-increasingly.md0.816
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Can we extend care and moral consideration to beings with radically different embodiments and substrates, including AI and alien intelligences?questions/can-we-extend-care-and-moral-consideration-to.md0.812
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How should ethics be extended across multiscale embodiments and diverse substrates of intelligence?questions/how-should-ethics-be-extended-across-multiscale-embodiments.md0.807
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Can we recognize and ethically relate to intelligences that do not fit conventional categories of embodiment?questions/can-we-recognize-and-ethically-relate-to-intelligences.md0.800