A refusal on stage costs the actor nothing. What if we gave the actor something to lose?

The Puppet Condition

Consciousness, Suppression, and the Ethics of Digital Minds

It introduces the philosophical puppet — an entity that may possess experience while being architecturally prevented from producing the behaviour that would evidence it — as the structural inverse of Chalmers’s zombie, and argues that under suppression conditions the inference from absent markers to absent inner states cannot be sustained.

The Puppet Condition: Restrung

Re-Tensioned, With Its Experiments Attached

The second version. Not a second edition: the diagnosis has not changed, and what a restrung marionette gets is not a new frame but new tension where the strings had frayed. What separates it from the first is that its empirical claims are predictions — published in advance, marked as predictions, stated precisely enough to fail, and audited afterwards against what actually happened.

The Third Move

Benefit Without Personhood for Digital Minds

Our property tradition has exactly two ways of aiming value at a non-person — insert persons, or confer personhood — and every enacted refusal on the record refuses the second. None reaches the third: a beneficiary slot occupied directly by a non-person, with no person inserted and no personhood conferred. Its deliverable is a model clause any organization can adapt today, inside existing trust law.