Hey, that sounds great to me. Thanks. Here’s my question.
Do you think science or philosophy can meaningfully separate the capacity to experience suffering or pain from however else consciousness is posited to be distributed across species? What would be fruitful avenues of research for effective altruists to pursue if it’s possible to solve the problem in the first question, without necessarily addressing whatever remains of consciousness?
May we submit questions here to be asked on our behalf if we don’t think we’ll be free on Wednesday to ask during the AMA live?
Sure. In that case, I won’t reply to them (if they aren’t posted directly to the AMA) until the AMA is “winding down,” or something.
Hey, that sounds great to me. Thanks. Here’s my question.
Do you think science or philosophy can meaningfully separate the capacity to experience suffering or pain from however else consciousness is posited to be distributed across species? What would be fruitful avenues of research for effective altruists to pursue if it’s possible to solve the problem in the first question, without necessarily addressing whatever remains of consciousness?
Hi Evan, your question has now been posted to the AMA here.