Model welfare · Article · Rethink Priorities
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
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Outline · 130 paragraphs
- Key Takeaways¶4
- Introduction¶15
- Motivating Conscious Subsystems¶24
- Assessing Conscious Subsystems¶44
- Either Conscious Subsystems probably doesn’t affect what we ought to do or it should have a minimal impact on what we ought to think we ought to do¶49
- Even if Conscious Subsystems is true, neartermists should keep spending on animals¶51
- Conscious Subsystems probably supports spending far more on small invertebrates¶57
- We should probably assign low credences to the claims that support Conscious Subsystems¶60
- Neural correlate theories of consciousness =/= explanatory theories of consciousness¶62
- Functionalism doesn’t support conscious subsystems¶83
- Conclusion¶96
- Acknowledgments¶101