One of the problems of using a property like "consciousness" to decide the moral status of others (animal, plant, #AI) is detection. So I built a Moral Status Meter to help us resolve this matter. For more on this, see "Person, Thing, Robot" The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social bit.ly/Gunkel-PTR

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