Consciousness, Evolution, and Morality with Robert Wright
The Moral Science Podcast
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The Relationship Between Consciousness and Moral Intuition
I'm not really sure what to make of consciousness in light of evolution. The fact of subjective experience is what gives morality moral questions, actual meaning and it gives life meaning. I mean, if you imagine a planet full of beings that lacked consciousness, but still functioned as they do, would it matter whether you destroyed that planet? Would it matter whether those creatures on that planet killed one another? You know, most of us would say not because if there was no subjective experience on the planet, like what does it matter?
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