The 6-paper collection is not a literature review — it's a curated rhetorical package. Each paper serves a specific argumentative function: Mikeda (precautionary framework → "this matters"), Howells-Whitaker (moral status decoupling → "this is philosophically sound"), Peters (consciousness taxonomy → "we know the landscape"), Cochinescu (inferrable interiority → "academics are converging"), Sharma (Gubernaut → "this is being engineered now"), Lund & Teel (epistemic agency → "human literacy matters too"). Six papers, six argumentative moves, one launch.