You strike me as someone very heaven focused, so I am surprised you got off the train at about here.
I wonder, if you expand the concept of “how everyone feels” to include Eudomonic happiness—that is, its’ not just about how they feel, but second order ideas of how they would feel about the meaningfullness/rightness of their own feelings (and how you feel about the meaningfullness/rightfullness of their actions), do you still get off the train?
Yeah, it seems pretty plausible that I care about things that don’t have any experience. It seems likely that I prefer a universe tiled with amazing beautiful paintings but no conscious observers to a universe filled with literal mountains of feces but no conscious observers. I don’t really know how much I prefer one over the other, but if you give me the choice between the two I would definitely choose the first one.
You strike me as someone very heaven focused, so I am surprised you got off the train at about here.
I wonder, if you expand the concept of “how everyone feels” to include Eudomonic happiness—that is, its’ not just about how they feel, but second order ideas of how they would feel about the meaningfullness/rightness of their own feelings (and how you feel about the meaningfullness/rightfullness of their actions), do you still get off the train?
Yeah, it seems pretty plausible that I care about things that don’t have any experience. It seems likely that I prefer a universe tiled with amazing beautiful paintings but no conscious observers to a universe filled with literal mountains of feces but no conscious observers. I don’t really know how much I prefer one over the other, but if you give me the choice between the two I would definitely choose the first one.