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> The one substrate we can be sure of is capable of producing consciousness? How can you be sure that anyone other than you is conscious? Why shouldn't animals

• tshaddox 4y ago
  > How can you be sure that anyone other than you is conscious? That doesn't seem like a more or less difficult question than asking how I can be sure that human neurons are the substrate responsible for producing consciousness. If it turns out that the other humans I observe only seem like they're conscious, then it could also turn out that my neurons only seem to be the substrate producing my consciousness. Of course, this is just terrible epistemology.
  • sva_ 4y ago
    Yeah, and I really don't see how that substrate should be much different from that in other animals such as, say, chimpanzees. It seems silly to criticize this research just based on the fact that the neurons were cultured from humans in my opinion.
    • melagonster 4y ago
      human just can't accept human suffer. most of legal of us is about protecting human.