AI ethics debate: moral norms come from cognition, not human tissue
dioscuri · x · 2026-11-03
Responding to a thought experiment about an android with human-cell skin and human-neuron biocompute running an LLM agent, dioscuri argues behavioral norms are grounded almost exclusively in psychology, which is grounded in cognition and the brain — human skin and tissue per se make no moral difference.
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