well, one might raise questions about conciousness. But I would agree that fish do. Fish definitely want to do fishy things, and preventing them from doing so is interferring with their free will.
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I think defining consciousness is a bit of a tough problem. I am not sure hard-disks or viruses qualify, I suspect fish might, but it's very hard to prove that. When harddrives or viruses start passing Turing tests, then I'll be ready to consider it.
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what is it like to be a hard drive?
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if I tell you that I know what it's like to be Dan Garfield, do you believe me? why? that argument is what the Turing Test is about, and ultimately why it's unsatisfactory.
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agreed. But Turing knew this, I think. The whole point of the Turing test is that I can't know if you're conscious, but if I can't tell you apart from other things considered conscious, then it's better not to take the risk of treating you as not being. It's the best fix we have.
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reasonable ethical praxis is what I say as demagnetize and then grind my old hard drives
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