i.e. there’s more than one reason to give someone moral personhood
Sure, but then at that point you are eroding the desired moral distinction. In the original post moral personhood status was solely determined by ‘qualia’.
Brain inspired AGI is near, and if you ask such an entity about its ‘qualia’, it will give responses indistinguishable from a human. And if you inspect it’s artificial neurons, you’ll see the same familiar functionally equivalent patterns of activity as in biological neurons.
Sure, but then at that point you are eroding the desired moral distinction. In the original post moral personhood status was solely determined by ‘qualia’.
Brain inspired AGI is near, and if you ask such an entity about its ‘qualia’, it will give responses indistinguishable from a human. And if you inspect it’s artificial neurons, you’ll see the same familiar functionally equivalent patterns of activity as in biological neurons.