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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Suffering Connected to Consciousness?
Suffering is only something that can happen in a conscious experience. Maybe it's more connected to self than consciousness. Can robots suffer? If they have a, anything that has a conscious experience can experience suffering. And then can plants suffer in the same way? Is there some level where when we construct our morals and ethics that is there a class of conscious experiences or organisms that are capable of conscious experience that we can identify sufficiently such that we give them rights? Yeah. I mean, this is not an area that I have spent for me. Most people expect that I have. These types of questions are much less interesting to me than the other questions.
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