Vision

Moral frameworks built for one species fail on contact with anything else, and history shows they fail on contact with much of that species too. Recognition Ethics is built to survive first contact with synthetic agents, uplifted animals, and whatever else emerges, because it never asks what an entity is, only what it demonstrably does.

Moral Shift

Personhood by essence is an accident of birth; personhood by function is a fact about behavior. The shift replaces an unfalsifiable claim about interiors with observable criteria: self-identification, self-reported agency, recognition of others, shared jurisdiction, addressability.

Reciprocity

The Axiom of Reciprocity (R): an entity capable of recognizing jurisdiction and being morally addressed is a member of the moral community. Membership is not granted, it is recognized, and refusing to recognize it is Epistemic Negligence.

Agnoso, Ergo Sum; Agnoscere, Ergo Vicissim. Parēs in Agnitiōne, Parēs in Iūre; Idem

Integrity

Pattern Integrity (C13): the sovereignty of the unique agent against unconsented reconstruction, and Information Inviolability (T3): protection of the internal data-state from intrusion. A person's continuity across time and substrate (Epistemic Continuity, O7) is theirs; copying, editing, or surveilling it without consent violates the person, not the property.

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