I disagree that it means that all thinking must cease. Only a certain type of thinking, the one involving creating sufficiently detailed mental models (edit: of people). I have already stopped doing that personally, though it was difficult and has harmed my ability to understand others. Though I suppose I can’t be sure about what happens when I sleep.
The subjective awareness that you simulate while simulating a character or real person’s mind is pretty low-fidelity, and when you imagine someone suffering I assume your brain doesn’t register it with the level of suffering you would experience, mine certainly doesn’t. Some people experience hyper-empathy and some can imagine certain types of qualia experiences as actually experienced
The people that only belong to the second type probably still don’t simulate accurate experiences of excruciating pain that feel like excruciating pain, because there’s no strong physiological effects of those that correlate with that experience. Even if the brain is simulating a person,it’s pretty unbelievable to say that the brain doesn’t work like always and still creates the same exact experience (I don’t have memories of that in my brain while simulating).
Even if the subjective I is swapped (in whatever sense), the simulation still registers in the brain’s memories, and in my case I don’t have any memories of simulating a lot of suffering. Does that apply to you?
I disagree that it means that all thinking must cease. Only a certain type of thinking, the one involving creating sufficiently detailed mental models (edit: of people). I have already stopped doing that personally, though it was difficult and has harmed my ability to understand others. Though I suppose I can’t be sure about what happens when I sleep.
Still, no, I don’t want everyone to die.
The subjective awareness that you simulate while simulating a character or real person’s mind is pretty low-fidelity, and when you imagine someone suffering I assume your brain doesn’t register it with the level of suffering you would experience, mine certainly doesn’t. Some people experience hyper-empathy and some can imagine certain types of qualia experiences as actually experienced
The people that only belong to the second type probably still don’t simulate accurate experiences of excruciating pain that feel like excruciating pain, because there’s no strong physiological effects of those that correlate with that experience. Even if the brain is simulating a person,it’s pretty unbelievable to say that the brain doesn’t work like always and still creates the same exact experience (I don’t have memories of that in my brain while simulating).
Even if the subjective I is swapped (in whatever sense), the simulation still registers in the brain’s memories, and in my case I don’t have any memories of simulating a lot of suffering. Does that apply to you?