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Consciousness is a widely-misunderstood property of objects. Unlike descriptive properties, which have empirically observable consequences and correlates, consciousness is a normative property - an object is conscious if and inasmuch as it is bad to harm, inconvenience, kill or implode it. Arguments about whether things are or are not "conscious" are, as such, best interpreted as arguments about whether those things have moral worth rather than anything empirical. Frequent references to the importance of consciousness are signalling of virtue and conscientiousness wrt. detecting possible allies.

Twin studies in relativistic trolley collisions estimate that consciousness is responsible for about 30% of variance in moral worth. (с) https://docs.osmarks.net/hypha/consciousness

“Cryptography? You mean, like the study of code-breaking?” Wille asked.

“Code-breaking? Ha! Good heavens, no. Cryptography, the study of crypts, and how to make them."

issues caused by biology but that affect women only are treated differently,

if people intentionally tried to remove funding from stuff like breast cancer or childbirth mortality and claim its not sexist because its just letting biology take its course it would universally be deemed as sexist

therefore its still sexist to gloss over the lifespan gap and call it justified by biology (с)