Commenter articulates skepticism about consciousness criteria in alien life
6 Sep 18 9:00 PM · 5d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 6 of 6
Late comment expresses doubt about the argument's assumption that physiologically different alien beings would possess consciousness merely through behavioral similarity to humans.
“You probably also think that conscious experience would be present in a wide range of naturally-evolved alien beings behaviorally very similar to us even if they are physiologically very different—I definitely do not think that.”
f30e3dfed1c9Eric Schwitzgebel Philosophy paper author
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> The argument in brief is this. If you're a materialistDunno. Suspect I probably am for the purposes here, but not something I think about much.> you probably think that rabbits have conscious experience.I definitely think that.> And you ought to think that.OK, well, thanks, I guess.> you probably also think that conscious experience would be…
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