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Would you rather
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RE: Would you rather
(October 4, 2016 at 11:22 pm)Emjay Wrote:
(October 4, 2016 at 11:12 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: That's sad... No wrong answer with thought experiments, of course, but I still think your ideal is kind of sad. Hope you don't mind.

Yeah, I know it's sad... but it just doesn't make any sense to me it existing in the first place because in my view as a 'functionalist epiphenomenalist' it's entirely impotent... so it seems to me that all over the world, for millions of years, there have been all these consciousnesses, all experiencing their own pain and suffering, needlessly. A philosophical zombie would behave exactly the same way... the world would be exactly the same as it is now... there would be the same effects of and responses to pain, but no pain would be felt.

The pain would still be felt, it's just that no one would be there to feel it. You're describing a world where the lights haven't gone on. It's practically inexistence. This world is only real because it is real to us. Otherwise, it's nothingness for its own sake.

I don't see how that's an improvement. Personally, I would prefer to exist no matter what, so long as I know there's a way up somewhere down the road.
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RE: Would you rather - by Excited Penguin - October 4, 2016 at 11:19 pm
RE: Would you rather - by purplepurpose - October 4, 2016 at 2:35 pm
RE: Would you rather - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 4, 2016 at 5:39 pm
RE: Would you rather - by Excited Penguin - October 4, 2016 at 11:07 pm
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RE: Would you rather - by Arkilogue - October 5, 2016 at 2:17 pm
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