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concept:moral-standingMoral Standing
The property of mattering morally in one's own right, meriting concern and respect.
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- Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)associated_withThe state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
- Welfare Subjectivityassociated_withThe property of being a being whose life can go better or worse for them.
- Autonomyassociated_withA psychological capacity for self-government, enabling an individual to be the author of her own thoughts and actions.
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- The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.
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- Central question of the paper.
- The property of being an entity whose interests matter in their own right, not merely as tools of humans
- The author's view that both welfare subjectivity and autonomy can confer moral standing.
- Question linking the possibility of non-welfare autonomous beings to the consciousness debate.
- Benchmark for moral understanding in language models; cited as relevant existing evaluation tool
- The status of mattering morally for one's own sake; having interests that generate duties for others.
- The ethical status predicated on whether there is something it is like to be a system