why do we care if an imagined thing inside our mind is a person or not?
This is a hypothetical (I’m not sure at all if it follows) but, if you think that a digital algorithm that feels like a person should count as a person, that is already some ground to think your simulations are people.
This is a hypothetical (I’m not sure at all if it follows) but, if you think that a digital algorithm that feels like a person should count as a person, that is already some ground to think your simulations are people.