if video game NPCs walked around irl with biologically human bodies, but had no brains and were still controlled by their original programming, would we give more weight to their preferences? would we ought to?
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"but their original programming doesn't involve controlling the motion of a human body" ok but humor me here
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Voted "yes no" because, while they have no moral weight, it would be pretty annoying to hear them scream all the time.
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only if you were near the graves
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I voted "yes no" because our mammal brain still sees something human-shaped and strongly humanlike, even though anyone who thinks about it rigorouslyish for more than a couple minutes will decide that no, they definitely don't count
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the dead already do this if they wrote a book
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