Salemicus comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 July 2014 06:20:27PM *  2 points [-]

Could agents who share no values recognize each other as agents? I may just be unimaginative, but it occurs to me that my imagining an agent just is my imagining it has having (at least some of) the same values as me. I'm not sure how to move forward on this question.