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atucker comments on A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: Wei_Dai 11 March 2011 07:56AM

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Comment author: atucker 12 March 2011 01:37:48AM *  0 points [-]

I agree with the idea that something is conscious is probably a large part of whether or not I care about its pain, its in line with my current intuition.

Though, I also kind of think that making me care about its qualia makes something conscious.

So I'm confused.