Zombies (unconscious physical duplicates of humans) would have a very different moral status from Vulcans, possibly none.

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• Consciousness alone does not explain the moral status of Vulcans; autonomous agency is needed.claim0.809
  Rejection of Chalmers' consciousness-only account.
• The philosophical zombie is incoherent by analogy: claiming zombie electrons — particles that behave identically to real electrons but are not 'actually' electrons — makes no sense, because 'electron' just names observable properties.claim0.761
  Paper's refutation of philosophical zombie concept via functionalist analogy
• There are metaphysically and/or nomologically possible beings who fall outside the scope of the morality of humanity and are protected only by the morality of respect.claim0.758
  Existence of autonomous non-welfare subjects with moral standing via respect.
• Some visual illusions that plague vertebrate nervous systems are recapitulated in collective intelligences such as ants.claim0.748
  Suggests deep commonalities between neural and swarm cognitive processing.
• The calls for sharp distinction between 'artificial' (or different) beings and 'we blue-ribbon true humans' basically amount to a call to 'Love only your own kind' – a recipe for moral disaster.quote0.747
  Strongest normative formulation of the paper's ethical argument against substrate-based moral exclusion
• Are there metaphysically and/or nomologically possible beings who fall outside the scope of the morality of humanity and are protected only by the morality of respect?question0.740
  Guiding question of the investigation.
• It would be wrong to kill or destroy a being like Artemis (a Vulcan) without her consent for the sake of a trivial good.claim0.736
  Intuitive judgment supporting moral status for non-affective autonomous beings.
• It is highly implausible that all sentient life in the universe achieves felt states using the neural circuitry underlying human Consciousness on earth.claim0.724
  Reinforcement of substrate independence: Earth-like neural circuits are unlikely to be the sole substrate.