Ai Makes Philosophy Honest

Not A Single One Of The Cells That Compose You Knows Who You Are, Or Cares.

Thanks To Technology, What Almost Anybody Can Do Has Been Multiplied A Thousandfold, And Our Moral Understanding About What We Ought To Do Hasn't Kept Pace.

Religions Have Depended On The Relative Isolation And Ignorance Of Their Flocks, Forever And This Is All Breaking Down.

Consciousness Is Cerebral Celebrity--nothing More And Nothing Less. Those Contents Are Conscious That Persevere, That Monopolize Resources Long Enough To Achieve Certain Typical And "symptomatic" Effects--on Memory, On The Control Of Behavior And So Forth.

If The Best The Roboticists Can Hope For Is The Creation Of Some Crude, Cheesy, Second-rate, Artificial Consciousness, They Still Win.