moral attunement

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Moral attunement is RB3’s learned, transindividual sensitivity to what matters in a situation before a rule or principle fully articulates it. It notices affordances, risks, asymmetries and threshold dynamics under pressure. The proposal preserves this cultivated ethical perception without equating it with instinct, a feeling of certainty, abstract calculation or the mere formal possibility of correcting an already recognized wrong.

Explanation

The enactive account places judgment within a moving field in which the agent already participates. Attunement therefore concerns developing perceptual and practical responsiveness, not standing outside all histories to apply a complete rule. The author extends this sensitivity toward recognizing what regimes select before their effects become normal.

The source separates noticing a wrong from having a revision available after it is demonstrated. A perfectly correctable arrangement could remain indifferent between exits. In archive-based systems, weighting is borrowed and the surrounding regime must make affected lives consequential; the entry does not treat a model’s sympathetic self-report as proof of genuine concern.

PB restates the distinction as availability of revision versus the valuation that selects one, while flagging the unproved ethical bindingness of its model. The proposal keeps this as a comparison rather than a theorem establishing moral perception. Attunement can inform decisive action without guaranteeing correctness or replacing subsequent public correction.

Scope and attribution

Cultivated salience differs from infallible instinct, model self-report or merely unused corrigibility.

AB — The Actual Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: Appendix: 280.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.

Occurrence locators: 175, 191, 221, 222, 295, 296.

Background used in the editorial explanation

RB3 p.303 discusses the limits of triage rather than moral attunement. It remains explanatory background.