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sully9088 t1_iytknjv wrote

Reply to comment by Unity-Druid in Thought Experiment - The Hermit and the Giant by Unity-Druid

Do you really think we will ever be able to truly understand the complexities of the human mind in a way that we can honestly withhold certain treatment in an ethical way? Even if the client appears to have the capacity to understand the risks?

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Unity-Druid OP t1_iytrrg0 wrote

No matter how well we understand neuroscience, I imagine conscious inner privacy will remain an ethical issue for a very long time. I cannot directly access another person’s consciousness, I cannot know for myself what the experience they are having feels like to have. I can only infer things about their experience from various sources of data. If some quantum-informational theories of consciousness are correct, inner privacy may be a fundamental law of information in the universe, so I think this issue will remain salient for quite a while.

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[deleted] t1_iyuv12j wrote

Development in AIs might very well produce just such a result.

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