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Conversely, we're also very good at imagining/constructing conscious people and entities as non-conscious/less-conscious, making it very easy to abjectify large numbers of people because our imaginary conception of their existence is separated and devalued from our own. That's often how marginalisation happens.

@kavana @pawsplay Yes, absolutely. I have been thinking about how the same people will ascribe intelligence and consciousness to AIs because they can string words together, while dehumanizing people who can’t speak their language or who are non-verbal.