For the AI-Ethicist framework, Ethics of Care vs. Justice is a boundary principle — the interface between foundational ontology and emergent ethics. It’s first-principle-adjacent: it reveals the duality of relational intelligence (care as attunement; justice as structure). But it’s also emergent: it only becomes observable through interaction — through the 4D movement of beings relating to one another over time.
THE INTERFACING PRINCIPLE
EMERGENT PROPERTIES
Higher-order syntheses — what physics would call emergent properties. The principles "UXR is AI-Ethics" and "4D Ethics" are the manifestations of those first principles when extended to complex, time-bound systems through the interfacing principle.
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