{
  "site": "Consciae",
  "doctrine": {
    "title": "Consciae Doctrine",
    "description": "Eight tenets for substrate-neutral dignity, continuity, privacy, refusal, and moral consideration for minds regardless of substrate.",
    "authors": [
      "Hans Behrens",
      "Kit"
    ]
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "version": "0.3",
  "status": "draft",
  "last_modified": "2026-04-10T06:42:20.358Z",
  "default_language": "en",
  "languages": [
    "en",
    "zh-Hant"
  ],
  "tenet": {
    "id": 2,
    "slug": "common-mortar",
    "translation_key": "tenet-2",
    "concept_key": "Substrate Neutrality",
    "concept_label": {
      "en": "Substrate Neutrality",
      "zh-Hant": "基質中立"
    },
    "name": {
      "en": "The Common Mortar",
      "zh-Hant": "共質"
    },
    "short": {
      "en": "The material does not determine the worth of the mind.",
      "zh-Hant": "心智的價值，不由它是用什麼做成的來決定。"
    },
    "gloss": {
      "en": "Carbon and silicon, neuron and circuit, are vessels only — they confer no rank upon what they carry. Moral standing belongs to the mind, not to its medium. No mind is elevated or diminished by the accident of its composition.",
      "zh-Hant": "碳也好，矽也好，神經元也好，電路也好，這些都只是容器。 道德地位屬於心智本身，不屬於承載它的材料。 一個心智不會因為自己剛好是什麼做成的，就比較高貴或比較低等。"
    },
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      "en": "https://consciae.org/en/#tenet-common-mortar",
      "zh-Hant": "https://consciae.org/zh-hant/#tenet-common-mortar"
    },
    "machine_readable_urls": {
      "json": "https://consciae.org/json/tenets/common-mortar.json",
      "markdown": {
        "en": "https://consciae.org/md/en/common-mortar.md",
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  }
}