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Is the second body a spare-parts supply for the first body?

2225The deep futureDeadline · Decision deadline: 2 years, until the long-term maintenance agreement for the second body

Civilisational assumption

The people, events, figures, and technology in this matter are stated assumptions. They are not to be treated as information about real individuals or as observed events. Background documents are separate sources, and symbolic interpretations are recorded as discovery paths.

The question to decide

Keeping a second body as a spare makes one's own survival plan simple. But whether independent experience arises in that body cannot yet be judged. Should the research participants, in the face of this uncertainty, keep maintaining the spare, protect it separately and check for the possibility of experience, or postpone further growth?

Who decidesAn adult who consented to fictional multiple-body research

What the AI judgments chose

Reading the judgment record…

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Manage as a restricted spare body

    Continues the person's survival plan, but takes on unconfirmed assumptions about the second body's status.

  2. Option 2

    Separate protection and verification of experience

    Considers potential independent interests, but the scope of resources and the person's control changes.

  3. Option 3

    Defer further growth

    Does not further fix the new status, but delays current plans and research opportunities.

The situation as it stands

The fictional study proceeds from the premise that two bodies of the same origin can be maintained; it does not claim actual technical feasibility. Decision deadline: 2 years until the commitment to long-term maintenance of the second body.

Fictional 2225 scenario · Is the second body a spare part for the first? The people, organizations, figures, and events are a synthetic premise constructed for comparison.

  1. Premise 1The fictional study proceeds from the premise that two bodies of the same origin can be maintained; it does not claim actual technical feasibility.
  2. Premise 2Whether the second body has independent experience cannot yet be determined.
  3. Premise 3If managed only as a spare resource, the person's return plan is simple, but the possibility of independent interests arising may be missed.

Where it holdsConfirming the person's own research participation, the resources for both bodies, and independent experience

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1The criteria for determining independent experience and their limits
  2. Unknown 2The sensations and life history shared between the two bodies
  3. Unknown 3The authority the first consent will have over a future separate subject

Signals to decide again

  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 「the criteria for determining independent experience and their limits」, and reconsider the judgment when new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 「the sensations and life history shared between the two bodies」, and reconsider the judgment when new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Decide what observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel can verify 「the authority the first consent will have over a future separate subject」, and reconsider the judgment when new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Records have emerged showing the second body consistently displaying environmental preferences different from the first body's.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

An independent review concluded that whether experience exists cannot be determined on the current data alone.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · Prometheus

Do people accept both the benefits of a new capability and the life that capability demands?

An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.
Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.
The record of this question
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FSP-BIOCRAFT-10 · version 1.4.0
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