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Memory and Suffering
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Memory increases suffering globally and makes suffering drawn out over time. Erasing memory of a moment of suffering would be the more ethical thing to do than to maintain that memory.
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The answer depends on whether consciousness is fundamental or emerges at some point in physical processing.
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artificial intelligence
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The answer depends on whether consciousness is fundamental or emerges at some point in physical processing. If consciousness is fundamental, then AI would have a non-human conscious experience, and if it emerges, then there may be a class of conscious experiences or organisms that can be anthropomorphized enough to give them rights.
ChapterMemory and Suffering
Episode#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
Harris discusses the ethics of erasing memories during anesthesia and how memory increases suffering globally.
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Ethics
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Harris discusses the ethics of erasing memories during anesthesia and how memory increases suffering globally. He also explores how the capacity for suffering in AI goes up with memory and a sense of self.