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• oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Based on my understanding of the brain and nervous system, and the strong evidence that those things give rise to my sentience, I think that it’s reasonable to extrapolate that other, similar nervous systems/brains are also sentient and their experience is worth consideration in a similar way to how I consider my own experience (among the many other reasons to have a basic level of empathy)

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not saying it is objective, I’m saying it’s not arbitrary.

        this can’t be true. it’s self-contradictory.

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