Hi, sorry for the very delayed reply. I think one thing I didn’t mention in the chain of comments above is that I think it’s more plausible that there are interventions that change qualia reports without much changing (morally important) qualia than the reverse: changing important qualia without changing qualia reports. And I gave examples of changing qualia reports without (much) changing qualia, whereas the linked report talks more about changing qualia without substantively changing qualia reports.
I can conceive of examples where qualia interventions change qualia but not qualia reports (eg painkillers for extreme pain that humans naturally forget/round down), but they seem more like edge cases than the examples I gave.
I agree that there are both interventions that change qualia reports without much changing (morally important) qualia and interventions that change qualia without much changing qualia reports, and that we should keep both these possibilities in mind when evaluating interventions.
Hi, sorry for the very delayed reply. I think one thing I didn’t mention in the chain of comments above is that I think it’s more plausible that there are interventions that change qualia reports without much changing (morally important) qualia than the reverse: changing important qualia without changing qualia reports. And I gave examples of changing qualia reports without (much) changing qualia, whereas the linked report talks more about changing qualia without substantively changing qualia reports.
I can conceive of examples where qualia interventions change qualia but not qualia reports (eg painkillers for extreme pain that humans naturally forget/round down), but they seem more like edge cases than the examples I gave.
I agree that there are both interventions that change qualia reports without much changing (morally important) qualia and interventions that change qualia without much changing qualia reports, and that we should keep both these possibilities in mind when evaluating interventions.