Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIf you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?message-squaremessage-square130linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIf you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square130linkfedilink
minus-squareZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI dunno. Some life forms have only a few brain cells. It could mean their whole world for those little cells, wouldn’t it?
minus-squareLurkingLuddite@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIt is definitely their entire world, but the point is it takes far more than a few cells to create actual human-relatable sentience. That’s coming from someone who fully understands and knows that many more animals than most humans care to admit also have sentience. Those petri dishes are not sentient nor conscious.
I dunno. Some life forms have only a few brain cells. It could mean their whole world for those little cells, wouldn’t it?
It is definitely their entire world, but the point is it takes far more than a few cells to create actual human-relatable sentience.
That’s coming from someone who fully understands and knows that many more animals than most humans care to admit also have sentience.
Those petri dishes are not sentient nor conscious.