Submitted by Unity-Druid t3_zbm61o in philosophy
Unity-Druid OP t1_iywb9xi wrote
Reply to comment by Tesseractcubed in Thought Experiment - The Hermit and the Giant by Unity-Druid
Thanks for the kind comment!
Questions about what makes an individual, and competing motivations between the conscious and subconscious, were some of the things knocking around my head while writing this, and I'm glad to hear you feel there's significant questions to be asked there.
In regard to waiting being less ethical, I agree with you, I think we have a moral responsibility to do what we can while we can do it, which is the reason I currently work in psychiatry, imperfect a science as it is. That said, the difference between a world with less suffering, and a world free from suffering, will come down largely to advances in our theories of mind, so while we shouldn't pause psychiatry to study the mind, the study of the mind should really be asking more and better questions.
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