I am destroying the only conscious creature in my universe.

This means identifying which values and norms (e.g. free speech versus government censorship) are more likely to maximize the well-being of all conscious creatures.

This is because conscious creatures exist along a large spectrum, at different ranges of "personhood".

You have a conscious creature, trapped on the surface of the Moon, in this desolate, barren environment.

She had forgotten that she was sheltered by a conscious creature who never slept!

Harris contends that the only moral framework worth talking about is one where "morally good" things pertain to increases in the "well-being of conscious creatures".

To Harris, moral propositions, and explicit values in general, are concerned with the flourishing of conscious creatures in a society.

Specifically, Harris suggests that values amount to empirical statements about "the flourishing of conscious creatures in a society".

Any conscious creature possessed some ability.

Fairness is an idea, and only conscious creatures have ideas.