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treadful@lemmy.zip 5 days agoLots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Like how do we know it’s natural state isn’t just pure pain?
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Maybe it would be less happy without the pain!
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Presumably at that point it could just tell us. Whether or not we would listen is its own set of problems
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Would it know? What sort of reference could it possibly have?
We already have a similar problem in medicine where people experience pain differently, so it’s hard for people to verbalize and quantify. If you had no frame of reference at all, how would you know that life isn’t supposed to be painful.
Some interesting philosophical questions.