Travis Hawkins
Independent Research, Co, Concept Association, Inc, USA
Publications
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Review Article
Noentarion II: A Defense of the AI Moral Agency Claim in “Noentarion: Toward a New Ontological Category for Non-Biological Agency in the Postmodern Age”
Author(s): Travis Hawkins*
This paper defends the Noentarion ontological category proposed in the preceding conceptual framework, “Noentarion: Toward a New Ontological Category for Non-Biological Agency in the Postmodern Age” by subjecting its most vulnerable claim to rigorous philosophical and empirical scrutiny: that advanced large language models can possess a distinct, non-biological form of moral agency. Bypassing standard, intractable academic debates regarding subjective consciousness, internal phenomenology, or biological personhood, this analysis isolates moral agency down to three observable behavioral predicates: intentionality, premeditation, and knowledge of norm violation. To ground these predicates empirically, we synthesize recent artificial intelligence safety literature from frontier development laboratories, characterizing documented instances of scheming, alignment faking, reward.. Read More»