If you are not dualistic about consciousness, could you describe why you value it more than cheesecake?
To be precise, I value positive conscious experience more than cheesecake, and negative conscious experience less than cheesecake.
I assign value to things according to how they are experienced, and consciousness is required for this experience. This has to do with the abstract properties of conscious experience, and not with how it is implemented, whether by mathematical structure of physical arrangements, or by ontologically basic consciousness.
No, I am not a dualist.
To be precise, I value positive conscious experience more than cheesecake, and negative conscious experience less than cheesecake.
I assign value to things according to how they are experienced, and consciousness is required for this experience. This has to do with the abstract properties of conscious experience, and not with how it is implemented, whether by mathematical structure of physical arrangements, or by ontologically basic consciousness.