Consciousness · proposed 2 months ago
Make consciousness, not output, the first unit of moral concern
Institutions tend to value what a person produces. AYVA asks what changes if the thing we protect first is conscious experience itself — the capacity to suffer, enjoy and mean — regardless of economic contribution.
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It grounds the dignity of children, the disabled and the elderly in what they are, not what they yield.
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Care, disability and end-of-life policy would be re-centred on experience rather than productivity.
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Experience is hard to measure, and any proxy for it can be gamed or contested.
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