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.

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

• The same charitable interpretation must be extended to all systems that display observable response patterns that are consistent with animal cognition, including artificial intelligences, metaplastic materials, and robotic systems.claim0.770
  Call to extend the inference of sentience to non-biological systems as well.
• Contrast, instead of separating things, brings them together when used to help centers become alive; contrast that fails to create deeper feeling is merely accidental or eye-catchingclaim0.761
  Claim distinguishing good contrast (Shaker schoolroom, which unifies) from bad contrast (glaring lobby staircase, which separates)
• 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.claim0.759
  Existence of autonomous non-welfare subjects with moral standing via respect.
• The conceptual distinctions between mind and body are artificial, and developmental biology and behavioral science should be unified.claim0.755
  Calls for consilience across disciplines.
• In this universe, the human self, yours and mine, are indistinguishable, in their substance, from the space and matter where the play of forms occurs.quote0.755
  The radical identity of self and matter.
• How shall we gauge moral responsibility and our moral obligations toward novel engineered beings without familiar natural forms as comparison?question0.752
• How shall we gauge moral responsibility and obligations toward chimeric and engineered beings without familiar evolutionary touchstones?question0.752
  Framing problem that motivates the paper: bioengineering will produce novel creatures that cannot be understood via traditional categories; Care provides substrate-independent framework.
• Artificial life will approach the illusion of self not directly, but by replicating its effect within a model.claim0.751
  Claim about methodology: ALife simulates mechanisms underlying self illusion.