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    It is not the case that If computational ALife produces genuinely self-replicating, adaptive systems, the moral concerns about uncontrolled proliferation are functionally identical to biological ALife.

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    • 1.Computational systems lack the causal independence from human control that grounds biological life's moral status as autonomous agents.
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    • 2.Uncontrolled proliferation differs fundamentally: biological systems escape containment; digital systems exist entirely within containable infrastructure.
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    • 3.Moral concern may track embodiment and evolutionary history rather than function, making functional identity insufficient for equivalence.
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    • 1.Functional equivalence in self-replication and adaptation mechanisms creates identical risk profiles regardless of substrate.
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    • 2.Moral concern derives from consequences (resource depletion, ecosystem disruption) that substrate-independence renders equivalent.
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    • 3.If we grant moral weight to biological systems based on these properties, consistency demands extending it to computational systems with identical properties.
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