RE: Proving What We Already "Know"
June 30, 2022 at 8:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2022 at 8:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Right, even in solip-world, the single real thing continues acting the way it always has - boilerplate stuff.
You certainly don't have to believe "seems like, therefore like". We know it's not a rule. We're aware of things that seem one way to us but are actually some other way. The central question raised by the vicitim machine example remains unanswered, however. If it's a poor reason to grant a hypothetical machine rights then, would it not also be a poor reason to grant an animal rights now?
I think that from that viewpoint, the hypothetical machine in future is irrelevant to the problem which must exist in present, and only serves (or even could serve) as yet another example of how we repeatedly effect the same disasters. The disaster itself being having ever posited or granted or accepted that anything has rights based on it seeming some particular way, in the first place.
You certainly don't have to believe "seems like, therefore like". We know it's not a rule. We're aware of things that seem one way to us but are actually some other way. The central question raised by the vicitim machine example remains unanswered, however. If it's a poor reason to grant a hypothetical machine rights then, would it not also be a poor reason to grant an animal rights now?
I think that from that viewpoint, the hypothetical machine in future is irrelevant to the problem which must exist in present, and only serves (or even could serve) as yet another example of how we repeatedly effect the same disasters. The disaster itself being having ever posited or granted or accepted that anything has rights based on it seeming some particular way, in the first place.
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