Comment on Fish have heart too.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agothe same can be said of DNA. this is a completely arbitrary standard, and you would be better served to embrace that than pretending it’s somehow objective.
Comment on Fish have heart too.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agothe same can be said of DNA. this is a completely arbitrary standard, and you would be better served to embrace that than pretending it’s somehow objective.
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 9 months ago
I’m not saying it is objective, I’m saying it’s not arbitrary.
If my dna was isolated in a test tube and it could experience things then I would also care about what it experiences. There isn’t any evidence I’m aware of that that’s the case. Dna is the instructions and tool to build the sentient being, not the sentient being itself. So no, the same couldn’t be said of dna. Extrapolating from how much I care about what I experience, I think it’s reasonable to care about what ** experience
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
this can’t be true. it’s self-contradictory.
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 9 months ago
ok, taboo the word arbitrary. What do you mean when you say arbitrary?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I mean there is no objective reason to set the standard at sentience any more than any other standard.