Honestly, these dogs might be the sole reason I'm not a legitimately terrible person
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How do you view the arguments made by David Deutsch among others that animals don't have morally significant sentience i.e. is simply genetically determined automata that can´t suffer?
I probably can't tell whether I'm projecting onto them, but the truth is that I'm not even capable of pretending that I'm unsure of their sentience. It's as apparent as sound or color. If I've been fooled so completely, David might find it funny that a dog managed to do that
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This is a particularly dark experiment, but I once asked a (now ex) boyfriend to pretend to attack me in front of my chihuahua. She came at him with all 10 pounds of fluff in full furry. That animal is ready to die for me. Perhaps more human than most humans on some layers
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That's super adorable and I love your chihuahua for it! That could still be the case without sentience though, no? For instance: people drive cars while sleeping in some conditions (being supposedly unconscious). Observed (complex) behavior is not enough to infer consciousness.
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I share your intuition. But I also observe the immense reach of anthropomorphizing when feeling bad for my Roomba getting stuck on a doorsill...
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This is very different. I don't know if I'd die but I'd probably lose an arm for one of my dogs.
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