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>If an organic animal can feel pain and it is possible to create a 100% accurate computational simulation of that animal, then the simulated animal must also ex
by d_theorist 8y ago
>If an organic animal can feel pain and it is possible to create a 100% accurate computational simulation of that animal, then the simulated animal must also experience pain
You can simulate a hurricane with a high degree of accuracy, but it doesn't make the wind blow.
Simulating a thing does not manifest the physical properties of the thing. That's not what a simulation is.
- abainbridge 8y agoIt makes the wind blow _in_the_simulation_. Pain felt in the simulation would still be a phenomenon worth moral consideration, particularly if you haven't got proof that we aren't all living in a simulation ourselves.