Suffering is an emotional state triggered by desire. Desire is the attachment of value to imagined experiences.
So there’s a minimal level of consciousness required to experience suffering, and a neuron farm probably doesn’t meet it, that’s why it’s not morally significant. What sorts of organisms do meet it is another matter.
Suffering is an emotional state triggered by desire. Desire is the attachment of value to imagined experiences.
So there’s a minimal level of consciousness required to experience suffering, and a neuron farm probably doesn’t meet it, that’s why it’s not morally significant. What sorts of organisms do meet it is another matter.