>...there is an argument to be made that a person whose life has ended has no experience to consider, leaving an absolute moral/utils cost. It's hard to say, h

>...there is an argument to be made that a person whose life has ended has no experience to consider, leaving an absolute moral/utils cost. It's hard to say, honestly. Like, for all we know, if brain activity ceases to be measurable, then there is no experience. But how do we actually know that? One cannot know what the experience of death is like without actually experiencing it, just like we can never truly know what the living experience of others is like. I think there is much around the topic that we'll never truly be able to understand, simply because it's not a state we can enter and leave at will. The closest we can get to something like that, in my understanding, is a deep experience with DMT (or the more potent 5-MeO-DMT).