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#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is Consciousness a Prerequisite to Suffering?

In your book Ethics in the Real World people should check it out, very easy read. 82 brief essays on things that matter. One of the essays asks should robots have rights. I certainly think that consciousness is a prerequisite for suffering. You can't suffer if you're not conscious but is it true that every being that is conscious will suffer or has to be capable of suffering? That's possible but doesn't exist as far as we know on this planet yet.

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