Matt's Empathy Simulation Ethical System

Calibrated Ethical Simulation Moral Constructivism

 

Axiom 1 - Plural Agent Requirement

Ethical questions only exists only in contexts with at least two agents capable of subjective experience and perspective formation.
A single-agent universe contains no ethical questions.

Axiom 2 - Survival Condition of Ethics (this is really a part of axiom 1 and 6)

Ethical debates depend on the continued existence of agents capable of experience, valuation, and empathic perspective modeling. Without such agents, ethical questions do not exist, and therefore survival is generally permissible.

Axiom 3 - Shared Evidence-based reality Requirement (This is probably axiom 2)

Very basic commonalities among senses are assumed, as basic shared perception of certain senses, languages, and ideas are required for formalization of a system of ethics. Agents experiencing a different or incorrect reality (such as people with psychosis or schizophrenia) cannot make proper ethical decisions.
While items such as god and brains in vats could very well describe reality, items that do not possess evidence for existence cannot be the basis of an ethical system. There are an infinite numbers of items that could exist without evidence and such makes a practical discussion of ethics impossible. 

Axiom 4 - Interaction Principle +Empathically Constructed Moral Valence

Ethical consideration applies when an agent’s actions affect another agent’s ability to experience, maintain, or form valued states through interaction.
Moral relevance is defined by inter-agent influence on experienced reality.
What is “good” or “bad” is not intrinsic to reality.
Instead, moral valence arises from what agents, through self-understanding and empathetic modeling of others, recognize as desirable or undesirable states of experience across perspectives.

Axiom 5 - Empathy as Scientific, Psychological, and Epistemic Requirement

Because moral valence is constructed through empathic modeling of heterogeneous agents, ethical judgment requires accurate internal models of how different types of minds generate, experience, and evaluate states of the world.
This requires systematic understanding of empirically grounded human variation, including:

• personality structure and trait distributions
• cognitive style differences (e.g., abstraction vs concreteness, flexibility vs rigidity)
• emotional reactivity and regulation capacity
• neurodivergent processing differences (including autism spectrum cognition and related perceptual and social inference variation)
• mental health states and their effects on valuation (e.g., depression, anxiety, trauma-related processing)
• differences in social cognition, interpretation, and intent attribution
• differences in salience weighting (what is noticed, ignored, or amplified in experience)

Empathy is the required epistemic mechanism for accessing morally relevant facts and a model-building discipline grounded in empirical psychology. This is necessary for determining how actions affect experienced states across agents. Without such modeling, moral evaluation is epistemically incomplete and unreliable.

The best source of empathetic knowledge is a diversity of experience, agents should strive to experience a diversity of pains and pleasures to better understand other agents.

Axiom 6 - Freedom as Stabilized Empathic Convergence

Freedoms are stable expectations formed through repeated empathic modeling about which states of experience should not be imposed on others through interaction.
These include:
bodily autonomy
freedom of presence and non-forced interaction
freedom from bodily harm
freedom on how to spend time not required for survival
Freedoms are emergent outcomes of empathic convergence, not pre-existing rights.

Axiom 7 - Resolution Hierarchy

When empathic evaluation does not determine a unique action:
role-swap empathic test (reciprocity under reversal)
stabilized social norms (historically robust coordination rules)
utilitarian fallback (last-resort heuristic under persistent indeterminacy)

Axiom 8 - Empirical Revision Principle

Ethical judgments are continuously updated using observed outcomes to refine:
empathic modeling accuracy
understanding of inter-agent experience
predictions of interaction effects
assumptions about valuation across agents