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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agowhy sentience and not DNA? or literally any other characteristic? your standard is absolutely arbitrary.
Comment on Fish have heart too.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agowhy sentience and not DNA? or literally any other characteristic? your standard is absolutely arbitrary.
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 11 months ago
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
the same can be said of DNA. this is a completely arbitrary standard, and you would be better served to embrace that than pretending it’s somehow objective.
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 11 months ago
I’m not saying it is objective, I’m saying it’s not arbitrary.
If my dna was isolated in a test tube and it could experience things then I would also care about what it experiences. There isn’t any evidence I’m aware of that that’s the case. Dna is the instructions and tool to build the sentient being, not the sentient being itself. So no, the same couldn’t be said of dna. Extrapolating from how much I care about what I experience, I think it’s reasonable to care about what ** experience
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
this can’t be true. it’s self-contradictory.