PhilGoetz comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

67 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 August 2013 09:05PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 19 August 2013 10:57:01PM *  3 points [-]

I suspect we'd have to know a lot more about neuroscience and consciousness to define "feel more strongly" precisely enough for the question to have an answer. I also suspect that, if the answer doesn't come out the way we want it to, we'll substitute another question in its place that does, in the time-honored practice of claiming that universal, objective agenthood is defined by whatever scale humans win on.