Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoIf you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?message-squaremessage-square133fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down15
arrow-up194arrow-down1message-squareIf you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square133fedilink
minus-squareLurkingLuddite@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoNot really. It’s not nearly enough cells to have any kind of consciousness as we know it. A few neurons learning to play a game is a far cry from tying a being into a simulation of hell.
minus-squareZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI dunno. Some life forms have only a few brain cells. It could mean their whole world for those little cells, wouldn’t it?
minus-squareLurkingLuddite@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoIt is definitely their entire world, but the point is it takes far more than a few cells to create actual human-relatable sentience. That’s coming from someone who fully understands and knows that many more animals than most humans care to admit also have sentience. Those petri dishes are not sentient nor conscious.
Not really. It’s not nearly enough cells to have any kind of consciousness as we know it. A few neurons learning to play a game is a far cry from tying a being into a simulation of hell.
I dunno. Some life forms have only a few brain cells. It could mean their whole world for those little cells, wouldn’t it?
It is definitely their entire world, but the point is it takes far more than a few cells to create actual human-relatable sentience.
That’s coming from someone who fully understands and knows that many more animals than most humans care to admit also have sentience.
Those petri dishes are not sentient nor conscious.