Reading to much Metzinger recently?
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Why? Has
@ThomasMetzinger recovered from his conjecture that artificial minds with greater awareness than ours must also suffer more, and come to the insight that our suffering is in fact the result of a lack of awareness? - 20 more replies
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A learning signal becomes phenomenological pain only when it is being presented to an inner representation of the system as something that can experience pain. A mind can never experience reality itself, only models.
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This also means that by changing the way you represent your self, you can eliminate the phenomenological impact of pain. More generally, a highly aware and self modifying mind gains the freedom to decide how it wants to experience the world. Humans have the potential to do that.
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All animals with a nervous system that maintains an integrated reflexive protocol of the contents of their attention are conscious.
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Life that is not conscious does not know that it is suffering, so it cannot reasonably complain.
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Seriously, suffering is being conscious of pain. The ability to articulate is not required of course.
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As
@joekina just points out: if you deliberately head for a situation that threatens your survival, you don't feel pain. Woooo wingsuits!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Distinctions between suffering and pain make sense, but that was not the point here. I think that many animals are quite clearly conscious, and experience pain very much in the same way as we do.
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I usually think of pain as a signal to regulate a function that controls a behavior, and suffering the result of being unable to make the pain go away (usually because the pain generator tries to regulate something that cannot be controlled, or it addresses the wrong function).
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