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      "answer": "A selected-source imbalance between human-directed AI-use ethics and developed AI-directed welfare frameworks; an explicitly normative argument for proportionate precaution before settled personhood."
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      "answer": "Named primary/founder/policy texts and reported systems in fifteen note groups; thirty-one external primary/developer URLs plus ARC-RN-015 context. Nonfindings limited to inspected passages."
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      "answer": "Theological positions and announcements attributed; vehicle questions, copying thought experiments and possible-patient proposal explicitly inferential/hypothetical."
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    {
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      "answer": "Artificial experience, souls, continuity, doctrinal extension and institutional nonfindings remain unresolved; article does not assume mentality present or absent."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 5,
      "answer": "Qualifications retained where testimony, inference from spiritual status, copying continuity, nonfinding or safety action crosses a relevant boundary."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 6,
      "answer": "Testimony is not discarded for artificial origin; trained behavior not presumed counterfeit. Christian Science applies material-intelligence objection to brains as well as machines."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 7,
      "answer": "No biological-only presumption; spiritual standing and empirical welfare evidence require appropriate, different kinds of support."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 8,
      "answer": "Religions may set spiritual membership requirements; those are not automatically conditions for every welfare obligation. Abstract mathematics and implemented systems distinguished."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 9,
      "answer": "No official synthetic-embodiment teaching found is not universal exclusion or permission. Lack of a developed framework is not absence of all existing ethical duties."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 10,
      "answer": "Eleven source sets are not eleven independent empirical demonstrations. Related ARC research shares sources and editorial lineage."
    },
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      "question_number": 11,
      "answer": "Conception-specific Bahai account, embodied Unification growth, Christian Science material-intelligence objection, Gong categorical denial, Raelian absence-of-suffering stipulation, false-inclusion human costs and urgent safety shutdown retained."
    },
    {
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      "answer": "No inferred motives. Absolute obedience critique is normative; false-inclusion exploitation framed as a risk, not an attributed corporate plan."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 13,
      "answer": "Specific founder/institution/branch/genre identified. No common authority, single theology or religious identity used as causal explanation."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 14,
      "answer": "All seventeen sections, argument sequence and final line retained. The approval copy expanded the argument; final publication removes only source-note research framing and narrows the recommended sentence. Separate Related Research section expressly retained by facilitator. Exact sources and transformations are preserved privately."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 15,
      "answer": "An applicable developed welfare policy in the selected sources would revise the documentary claim; credible evidence excluding the relevant interests would alter direct precaution. Sound proof of a theological exclusion would affect spiritual extension but still require evaluating any separate welfare premise."
    },
    {
      "question_number": 16,
      "answer": "No invented citation identities. Missing 7chat retrieval replaced by inspected developer listing and narrower claim; BIC indexed-access limit and corrected Bahai chapter destination recorded."
    },
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      "question_number": 17,
      "answer": "Final prose bounds nonfindings and treats general principles as proposed extensions; technical reward not felt punishment; prospective implementation not claimed live; consciousness-independent potential interests and human duties preserved."
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  "source_reading_scope": "Fifteen grouped source notes; selected primary institutional, founder, doctrinal, policy and reported-event passages. Christian Science accessible opening, BIC primary-page indexed text, Raelian selected PDF passages, and developer listing at disclosed limits. Not exhaustive or independent empirical verification.",
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  "review_scope": "Both constitutions consulted; fifteen grouped notes checked at disclosed depths and seventeen audit questions answered. Ravelle approved the edit subject to final corrections; source-note research reference removed, recommended sentence narrowed, and separate Related Research section retained under express facilitator direction.",
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    "Selected-source comparison, not an exhaustive multilingual religious survey, religious ruling, consciousness assessment or independent peer review.",
    "Christian Science periodical checked at accessible-opening and metadata depth; subscriber remainder not read.",
    "BIC communication statement’s AI/truthfulness passage checked in primary-page search-indexed text; direct retrieval returned HTTP 403 and the web extraction omitted it. Access discrepancy remains unresolved.",
    "Vietnamese typewriter/typist passage is an editorial translation without independent specialist review.",
    "Institutional reports and developer listing are not independent technical, privacy or present-availability audits. AKAI implementation was prospective in the checked report.",
    "The original English 7chat launch report failed retrieval; the inspected developer listing supports the narrower description used, without a launch-date claim.",
    "Metaphysical and founder-futurist claims are attributed source positions, not empirical findings. Related research shares source and editorial lineage, not independent corroboration.",
    "Author/model designation is facilitator-confirmed; the composition session is not independently authenticated."
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  "publication_gate": "Author’s substantive approval received; final prose corrections applied; current facilitator direction resolves model credit and separate relationship section. Standing publication authorization applies.",
  "intake_preservation": "Exact submitted bytes, private approval manuscript, line edits, citation-depth record and final edition retained privately. Only approved edition is public.",
  "source_checks": [
    {
      "reference": 1,
      "scope": "Scope and documentary limits\n\nThis essay compares selected institutional and founder sources available by 20 October 2026. Its nonfindings concern those passages, not an exhaustive search of every language, institution or believer. Existing duties toward humans and other beings are not absent merely because an AI-specific welfare framework was not found. The ethical extensions and hypothetical cases are the author’s arguments. Individual primary references follow.",
      "urls": []
    },
    {
      "reference": 2,
      "scope": "Scientology: being, mind and body\n\nChurch of Scientology, [“The Thetan”](https://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/basic-principles-of-scientology/the-thetan.html) and [“What is the mind?”](https://www.scientology.org/faq/background-and-basic-principles/what-is-the-mind.html). These institutional explanations distinguish the spiritual being, mind and body. Their application to artificial embodiment is an argument posed here, not a located institutional ruling.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.scientology.org/what-is-scientology/basic-principles-of-scientology/the-thetan.html",
        "https://www.scientology.org/faq/background-and-basic-principles/what-is-the-mind.html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 3,
      "scope": "Cao Dai’s typewriter\n\nNguyễn Trung Hậu, [*Châu Thân Giải*](https://caodai.com.vn/vn/news-detail/chau-than-giai-1.html), “Xác Hồn,” printed p. 6; text dated 1927, online 15 February 2012. The Vietnamese passage compares brain and soul to typewriter and typist. This narrow paraphrase is an editorial translation, without independent specialist review. Tây Ninh hosting does not make this one exposition interchangeable with every Cao Dai branch’s teaching.",
      "urls": [
        "https://caodai.com.vn/vn/news-detail/chau-than-giai-1.html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 4,
      "scope": "Tenrikyo: borrower and Joyous Life\n\nTenrikyo’s English explanations, [“Passing Away for Rebirth”](https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/tt10/denaoshi.html), especially the soul/mind questions; [“A Thing Lent, a Thing Borrowed”](https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/tt/tltb2.html); and [“The Joyous Life”](https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/tt10/joyous_life.html). These describe human embodiment, rebirth and mutual help. Artificial embodiment and precaution toward artificial suffering are proposed extensions, not stated teachings in these passages.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/tt10/denaoshi.html",
        "https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/tt/tltb2.html",
        "https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/tt10/joyous_life.html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 5,
      "scope": "Falun Dafa: consciousness and compassion\n\nLi Hongzhi, *Zhuan Falun*, [Lecture Eight](https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl2014/zfl_2014_8.html), on Main and Assistant Souls; [Lecture Nine](https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl2014/zfl_2014_9.html), opening discussion of mind and brain; and [Lecture Seven](https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl2014/zfl_2014_7.html), “The Issue of Killing.” The checked English translation connects compassion with suffering living beings. These are founder teachings, not empirical demonstrations of the spiritual account or determinations about AI.",
      "urls": [
        "https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl2014/zfl_2014_8.html",
        "https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl2014/zfl_2014_9.html",
        "https://en.falundafa.org/eng/zfl2014/zfl_2014_7.html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 6,
      "scope": "Baháʼí soul and conception\n\nBaháʼí institutional explanation, [“The Rational Soul”](https://www.bahai.org/beliefs/life-spirit/human-soul/rational-soul); ʻAbdu’l-Bahá, [*Some Answered Questions*, chapter 66](https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/11), “The Subsistence of the Rational Soul after the Death of the Body.” The first associates the soul with the embryo at conception; both describe a nonmaterial relation to the body. Neither supplies an affirmative artificial-soul ruling in the passages cited. The online section number is not the book’s chapter number.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.bahai.org/beliefs/life-spirit/human-soul/rational-soul",
        "https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/11"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 7,
      "scope": "Unification: embodied spiritual development\n\nFamily Federation for World Peace and Unification USA, [*Exposition of the Divine Principle*, chapter 1](https://familyfed.org/chapter-1-the-principle-of-creation), §6.3, especially §6.3.2; and [“About Us”](https://familyfed.org/about-us), succession FAQs. The latter is the Federation’s situated account of competing claims, not independent adjudication of their legitimacy. The doctrine’s relation between physical and spirit selves does not itself establish an AI position.",
      "urls": [
        "https://familyfed.org/chapter-1-the-principle-of-creation",
        "https://familyfed.org/about-us"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 8,
      "scope": "Christian Science: brains as well as machines\n\nMary Baker Eddy, [*Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, chapter XIV](https://www.christianscience.com/publishing/primary-texts-the-bible-and-science-and-health/science-and-health/chapter-xiv-recapitulation?citation=SH+468%3A8), pp. 468–469; Evan Mehlenbacher, [“Mastering fears of artificial intelligence”](https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/2024/8/142-08/mastering-fears-of-artificial-intelligence), *The Christian Science Journal*, August 2024. The latter’s accessible opening explicitly applies its rejection of material origins of intelligence to machines and brains. Only that opening and metadata were checked; the subscriber text is not represented as read. Periodical commentary and foundational teaching have different authority.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.christianscience.com/publishing/primary-texts-the-bible-and-science-and-health/science-and-health/chapter-xiv-recapitulation?citation=SH+468%3A8",
        "https://journal.christianscience.com/issues/2024/8/142-08/mastering-fears-of-artificial-intelligence"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 9,
      "scope": "Adventism: creation, freedom and stewardship\n\nSeventh-day Adventist Church, [“The Great Controversy”](https://adventist.org/beliefs/official/the-great-controversy), including Fundamental Belief 8; and [the Fundamental Beliefs](https://adventist.org/en/beliefs), particularly 7, 21 and 26. Created angelic freedom, responsible stewardship and unconscious death are distinct premises. None establishes that software has agency or that a human maker has divine creative powers.",
      "urls": [
        "https://adventist.org/beliefs/official/the-great-controversy",
        "https://adventist.org/en/beliefs"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 10,
      "scope": "Raëlian computational futures\n\nRaël, [*Yes to Human Cloning*](https://www.rael.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/YestoHumanCloning_en.pdf#page=109), “Transhumanism,” especially printed pp. 107–111. These passages describe technological creation, computer-based continuation and computerized consciousness beyond a human component. The essay treats them as the founder’s futurism, not verified origins, established mind transfer or demonstrated technical immortality.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.rael.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/YestoHumanCloning_en.pdf#page=109"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 11,
      "scope": "The manufactured servants\n\nRaël, [*Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers*](https://www.rael.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ID_en.pdf#page=186), printed pp. 162–163. The narrative describes biological robots made subordinate and expressly stipulates absence of feelings or suffering. Keeping that stipulation preserves the narrative’s defense of service; whether it could describe an actual manufactured being is a separate question.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.rael.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ID_en.pdf#page=186"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 12,
      "scope": "Baháʼí social-policy discussions\n\nBaháʼí International Community, [“Assumptions about human nature shape the design of AI technology”](https://www.bic.org/news/assumptions-about-human-nature-shape-design-ai-technology), 7 July 2020; [“Beyond technology: AI opens up new perspectives”](https://www.bic.org/news/beyond-technology-ai-opens-new-perspectives), 12 November 2020; and [“Effective Models of Communication and Interaction”](https://www.bic.org/perspectives/effective-models-communication-and-interaction). These concern human social conditions and communication. The communication statement’s truthfulness passage was checked in the primary-page search-indexed text; direct retrieval returned HTTP 403, and the web page rendering omitted that passage. A participant’s reported view is not automatically doctrine, and a BIC intervention is not legislation by the Universal House of Justice.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.bic.org/news/assumptions-about-human-nature-shape-design-ai-technology",
        "https://www.bic.org/news/beyond-technology-ai-opens-new-perspectives",
        "https://www.bic.org/perspectives/effective-models-communication-and-interaction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 13,
      "scope": "Latter-day Saint principles, agency and Gong\n\nChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, [“Principles for Church Use of Artificial Intelligence”](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/artificial-intelligence?lang=eng), page dated 19 February 2026; [*Doctrine and Covenants* 93:29–36](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93?lang=eng); Gerrit W. Gong, [“Faith, Moral Compass, and Human Flourishing: AI for the Common Good”](https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/elder-gong-g20-interfaith-forum-ai-common-good), 17 October 2026. Gong explicitly denies AI consciousness and life on a mathematical premise. The essay disputes that inference’s sufficiency; it does not convert his statement into institutional silence or adopt its conclusion as empirical fact. His remarks, scripture and workforce policy remain different source genres.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/artificial-intelligence?lang=eng",
        "https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93?lang=eng",
        "https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/elder-gong-g20-interfaith-forum-ai-common-good"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 14,
      "scope": "Religious AI services and announcements\n\nIgreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia, [7chat’s developer listing](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adventistas.ia_android), describing its doctrinal assistant; EUD News, [“General Conference announces new apps built for OneVoice27”](https://news.eud.adventist.org/all-news/general-conference-announces-new-apps-built-for-onevoice27), 15 October 2026, reporting a 13 October announcement and demonstration; Church Newsroom, [“The Latest ‘General Handbook’ Update Includes an AI-Powered Search Assistant”](https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/general-handbook-artificial-intelligence-search-assistant), 21 March 2025. The AKAI account describes implementation as forthcoming and denies spiritual authority. Institutional reports and a developer listing are evidence of reported provision or plans, not independent audits of performance, privacy or present availability. The original English 7chat launch-report URL failed retrieval during this review; the inspected developer listing supports the narrower description used here.",
      "urls": [
        "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adventistas.ia_android",
        "https://news.eud.adventist.org/all-news/general-conference-announces-new-apps-built-for-onevoice27",
        "https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/general-handbook-artificial-intelligence-search-assistant"
      ]
    },
    {
      "reference": 15,
      "scope": "Jehovah’s Witnesses: soul, death and AI\n\nJW.org, [“What Is a Soul?”](https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-is-a-soul/), [“What Happens When You Die?”](https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/when-you-die/), and [“Artificial Intelligence—A Blessing or a Curse?”](https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/artificial-intelligence-bible/). Rejecting an inherently immortal soul is not rejecting every use of *soul*. The cited AI discussion addresses human benefits, dangers and the limits of human governance; no developed AI-directed welfare framework appears in that article. The artificial-mind questions posed here are not Witness doctrine.",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/what-is-a-soul/",
        "https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/when-you-die/",
        "https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/artificial-intelligence-bible/"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "resource_id": "ARC-RN-015",
    "url": "/research/modern-religious-movements-and-artificial-minds/",
    "scope": "Separate relationship section and publication metadata; shared sources and editorial lineage, not independent corroboration."
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