
#305 - Moral Knowledge
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Recognizing Our Concepts of Consciousness
I think that we have to recognize that they may be fundamentally very different from us and therefore it's unclear if our notions will be commensurate. I'm concerned that we will not even know whether they're conscious, right? Even when they might in fact be conscious, we'll have no ability to decide that. And just our, you know, memetic states of mind will just be driven helplessly into empathy and emotional contagion by the systems we've built. But again, you're stuck on the decision procedure side of this, not on the moral truth side of it. You can make it with science fiction level of detail, I mean, you can make it salient for yourself
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