Yeah, one possible successor concept to the instrumental/terminal distinction might be something like “does this thing clearly draw its raison d’être from another thing, or is it its own source of raison d’être or some third thing which is like a nebulous, non-explicitized symbiosis”, where the raison d’être is itself something potentially revisable by reflection (or whatever mind-shaping process).
Yeah, one possible successor concept to the instrumental/terminal distinction might be something like “does this thing clearly draw its raison d’être from another thing, or is it its own source of raison d’être or some third thing which is like a nebulous, non-explicitized symbiosis”, where the raison d’être is itself something potentially revisable by reflection (or whatever mind-shaping process).