Submitted by Unity-Druid t3_zbm61o in philosophy
Unity-Druid OP t1_iytrrg0 wrote
Reply to comment by sully9088 in Thought Experiment - The Hermit and the Giant by Unity-Druid
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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