I apologize for the hyperbole; entirely was not the word I should have used. As for questions I had, I thank you for the opportunity to ask them, but if I had specific ones I would have asked them there, rather than complaining someone else.
I am not personally interested in the question of consciousness, and so while I can appreciate their potential scientific value I don't feel the fascination that the subject has for many.
I'm also not very interested in moral issues phrased as plights, though I know others here are. The world arranges itself by the bottom up, not the top down. (I am planning to switch from chicken to algae, but for health and related reasons rather than moral ones.)
The only part of the world to which one has direct, non-inferential access is the contents of one's own conscious mind. Abundant evidence from experimental psychology suggests we often confabulate even here. Even if one is uninterested in the topic of consciousness per se, I think it's worth investigating how the properties of the medium infect the supposed propositional content of what one is saying. Thus while in the altered state of consciousness known as dreaming, for instance, a scientific rationalist may make all sort of cognitive errors; but the nat...
Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce co-founded Humanity+ with Nick Bostrom.
He is currently answering questions in an AMA on reddit/r/transhumanism.