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Evidence level Hypothetical A logical proposal, not yet directly demonstrated. What this means

Xenojurisprudence: Law for Unfamiliar Forms of Life and Intelligence

Xenojurisprudence is the proposed study of legal and moral status for unfamiliar forms of agency: artificial minds, engineered organisms, extraterrestrial life and radically modified humans. It asks h…

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Evidence level Hypothetical A logical proposal, not yet directly demonstrated. What this means

Artificial Consciousness Engineering: Toward Machine Subjectivity

Artificial consciousness engineering is the proposed science of designing, detecting and governing machine systems that may possess unified experience, self-models or morally relevant forms of subject…

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Evidence level Emerging Research Active research with promising but incomplete validation. What this means

Holobiont Ecosystem Design: Engineering Partnerships Across Life

Holobiont ecosystem design is the proposed science of shaping partnerships among hosts, microbes, viruses and environments to improve resilience while preserving ecological complexity and evolutionary…

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Evidence level Hypothetical A logical proposal, not yet directly demonstrated. What this means

Neuro-Quantum Prosthetics: Future Interfaces for Brain and Body

Neuro-quantum prosthetics is a proposed field combining neural interfaces, advanced prosthetic control and quantum sensing or computation where those technologies offer measurable improvements in sign…

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