Is that necessarily stupid? Obviously it is if you only value agency/​intelligence, and it’s an empirical question whether insects and bacteria have the other characteristics you may care about, but given that it is an empirical question the only acceptable response seems to be to shut up and calculate.
Is that necessarily stupid? Obviously it is if you only value agency/​intelligence, and it’s an empirical question whether insects and bacteria have the other characteristics you may care about, but given that it is an empirical question the only acceptable response seems to be to shut up and calculate.