Passage 1
What the creature is in-himself or essentially, must become phenomenally organized to his own experience, in order to his having any consciousness, or before he can claim that projection from his creator which makes existence or anything else predicable of him. And finite existence, existence in time and space, alone expresses what the creature is in-himself or essentially, namely: a form of universal destitution and hence of dependence upon what is not him^ self
Machine minds and made personsmade person · considersMetaphysics of mind and lifeReligion and theologyNo judgment offeredIndividualMind and body
A creator–creature account of consciousness and dependence; an analogue for made minds, not a direct rights claim.
Chapter 15 · p. 266 · JTP-034