Moral Patienthood

The status of mattering morally for one's own sake; having interests that generate duties for others.

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Thomas Nagel
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Philosopher referenced for 'what it's like' framework applied to understanding memory reconstruction from past self perspective.

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Moral Patient
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The ethical status predicated on whether there is something it is like to be a system
Sentience
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Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)
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The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
Robust Agency
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The ability to pursue goals via cognitive states and processes beyond minimal agency; includes intentional, reflective, and rational agency.

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

Under-attribution of Moral Patienthoodconcept0.811
Mistakenly treating a welfare subject/moral patient as an object.
Consciousness suffices for moral patienthood.claim0.802
Normative premise of the consciousness route.
Over-attribution of Moral Patienthoodconcept0.797
Mistakenly treating an object as a welfare subject/moral patient.
What if these capacities are insufficient for moral patienthood?question0.774
Exploration of uncertainty about normative bases.
Moral Standingconcept0.769
The property of mattering morally in one's own right, meriting concern and respect.
Does consciousness suffice for moral patienthood?question0.766
Key normative question for the consciousness route.
Does robust agency suffice for moral patienthood?question0.760
Key normative question for the agency route.
Moral DNAconcept0.758
Metaphor for intrinsic ethical orientation embedded in AI from the outset rather than imposed post-hoc