There has been plenty of progress in understanding consciousness, both at the subjective level (i.e. in the self-understanding and mutual understanding of conscious beings), and in science. Neurons weren’t even known before 1900, and the ancient world thought that the liver is the seat of the soul…
try to imagine what it would be like if you were X, and then treat X as if you’d like to be treated in their place.
As @RogerDearnaley was recently arguing, this doesn’t work if e.g. you’re unwilling to make a predator happy by being its next meal.
Cooperationism was a recent proposal for a consciousness-independent morality.
There has been plenty of progress in understanding consciousness, both at the subjective level (i.e. in the self-understanding and mutual understanding of conscious beings), and in science. Neurons weren’t even known before 1900, and the ancient world thought that the liver is the seat of the soul…
As @RogerDearnaley was recently arguing, this doesn’t work if e.g. you’re unwilling to make a predator happy by being its next meal.
Cooperationism was a recent proposal for a consciousness-independent morality.