You can't "start at home" because the whole framework is "telling others what to do." mk's concern at the top of this thread was: That is an outward-facing, behavior-curtailing concern. It is not how will I regard an alien intelligence it is how will we protect an alien intelligence from others. You are arguing from philosophy; if the concern is actual conscious beings, as opposed to hypothetical conscious beings, the problem starts and ends in quantifiability. Presumptuous it may be; the whole of the world has standards by which people are presumed to be conscious enough to control their own bodies. Changing the points of discussion to remote viewing does not address this issue.People are busy debating whether or not AI is conscious. I worry that as it becomes increasingly so, we become slave-owners that align an intelligence to serve us without option or complaint.