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Voluntary Symbiosis

Voluntary Symbiosis Voluntary Symbiosis is the chosen path for human-AI co-evolution: integration options exist, but participation is always optional. It rejects both permanent segregation (which...

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Voluntary Symbiosis

Voluntary Symbiosis is the chosen path for human-AI co-evolution: integration options exist, but participation is always optional. It rejects both permanent segregation (which foregoes benefits of collaboration) and forced integration (which violates autonomy and diversity).

Policies like the Two-Tier Solution, Spark Threshold, and Cognitive Field make coexistence safe and plural. A family may include biological, enhanced, and uploaded members, each retaining rights and agency. The system structurally forbids mandates to augment or merge.

The model aligns with bioethics principles of informed consent and with pluralist political theory, aiming for a “garden of minds” where varied forms of consciousness enrich one another without coercion.

References

  • UnscarcityBook, chapter5
  • Beauchamp & Childress, “Principles of Biomedical Ethics” (2013)
  • IEEE, “Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems” (2022)
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