Reece, Philip: Beyond the Human Measure: A Substrate-Neutral Framework for Consciousness, Sentience, and Ethical Consideration

Existing ethical frameworks for determining which entities warrant moral consideration share a structural flaw: they measure moral relevance by approximation to human experience. Whether grounded in the capacity to suffer, the presence of consciousness, or cognitive complexity, existing frameworks exclude non-biological entities by architectural assumption rather than principled reasoning, and are inadequate for the questions that advanced artificial intelligence systems now make unavoidable. Th