12.4 Ethical Synergy 217 Pre-ethical e Piagetan infantile to early concrete (aka pre-operational) e Radical selfishness or selflessness may, but do not neces- sarily, occur e No coherent, consistent pattern of consideration for the rights, intentions or feelings of others ———— Conventional Ethics e Concrete cognitive basis e Perry’s Dualist and Multiple stages e The common sense of the Golden Rule is appreciated, with cultural conventions for abstracting principles from behaviors @ One’s own ethical behavior is explicitly compared to that of others e Development of a functional, though limited, theory of mind e Ability to intuitively conceive of notions of fairness and rights e Appreciation of the concept of law and order, which may sometimes manifest itself as systematic obedience or sys- tematic disobedience e Empathy is more consistently present, especially with others who are directly similar to oneself or in situations similar to those one has directly experienced e Degrees of selflessness or selfishness develop based on eth- | Table 12.4: Integrative Model of the Stages of Ethical Development, Part 1 logical inference step to take in thinking about applying the notions of rights and fairness to a given situation. Gilligan’s stages correspond to increasingly sophisticated control of empathic simulation — which in a CogPrime-type AGI system, is carried out by a specific system component devoted to running internal simulations of aspects of the outside world, which includes a subcomponent specifically tuned for simulating sentient actors. The conventional stage has to do with the raw, uncontrolled capability for such simulation; and the post-conventional stage corresponds to its contextual, goal-oriented control. But controlling empathy, clearly, requires subtle management of various uncertain contextual factors, which is exactly what uncertain logical inference is good at — so, in an AGI system combining an uncertain inference component with a simulative compon