Consciousness may be fake, and it may not matter all that much (also this), but you shouldn’t be too confident in either of those suspicions. There is an asymmetry: if you care about consciousness, and it turns out it’s fake or unimportant, you’ve made a mistake, but not a morally very serious one.
New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness
New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness
New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness
Consciousness may be fake, and it may not matter all that much (also this), but you shouldn’t be too confident in either of those suspicions. There is an asymmetry: if you care about consciousness, and it turns out it’s fake or unimportant, you’ve made a mistake, but not a morally very serious one.