I don’t feel especially bad about biting this bullet. Like they wouldn’t feel bad about being killed, even if you told them in advance. So why is it bad?
If you wanted to convince me, the most plausible route to doing so would be by appealing to some kind of honor or fairness thing. Like I do think I’d feel bad lying to a Vulcan. Or trampling on their plans if they’d spent even a little bit of effort not trampling on mine.
But I think I’d feel the same way even if they were p-zombies. So “richness of conscious experience” independent of valence seems to me not to matter at all.
I don’t feel especially bad about biting this bullet. Like they wouldn’t feel bad about being killed, even if you told them in advance. So why is it bad?
If you wanted to convince me, the most plausible route to doing so would be by appealing to some kind of honor or fairness thing. Like I do think I’d feel bad lying to a Vulcan. Or trampling on their plans if they’d spent even a little bit of effort not trampling on mine.
But I think I’d feel the same way even if they were p-zombies. So “richness of conscious experience” independent of valence seems to me not to matter at all.