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Re:Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of R... by whack on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:30AM (#23927159)
If I told you that you can never eat chocolate again for the rest of your life, and you expressed sadness for not being able to experience the pleasures of eating chocolate, would that be equally perplexing?

Just because our desire for chocolate is a primal evolutionary imperative, doesn't mean that it's wrong to develop an attachment to it. Why is it ok to express sadness over missing out on physical pleasures, but not psychological pleasures.

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Re:Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of R... by Barrin92 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @10:02AM (#23927447)
because that's not the same thing. You can have the pleasure and meaningful experience of raising a child (which I remarked in my post), there is no actual pleasure or meaning to the idea of reproduction as such.

The actual comparison would be for me to express sadness about the fact that I cannot pass on my desire for chocolate to the next generation, which to be honest I couldn't care less about.

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