Since we know our preferences and utility’s are formed from a combination of genetics and experiences we start to realize that a Alien God had great influence on our genetic “wants” or preferences. Therefore as we transform mentally using the master lifehack and understand the way our mind works better we can distinguish which genetic preferences are useful to our sanity and utility, and which ones we should try to life-hack our way out of.
However, in a post positive singularity world where someone can manipulate their body and mind as they please where do we draw the line for sentience? One of my overlying questions has always been if we do successfully make it to a positive singularity, what differentiates between life that we should let grow naturally and life that we shouldn’t give the ability to choose. Just because we are one step ahead of our animal brothers in the evolutionary ladder, does that mean we can live our lives according to our every wants while they spend time fighting in their natural habitat? Do we help them advance to sentience and if so where do we draw the line?
Harry has many conflicts with the line between sub-sentient/sentient life in HPMOR, but everyone including Herminone fails to understand his distress at the issue. The only reason my morality allows me to lay this issue on the back-burner is because right now all we can do is speculate about these issues for mental relaxation and pleasure. Harry had magic which he knew could set right which was once set wrong and the topic nearly consumed him before he made the decision to let a rationalization stand for sake of humanity. Once we have a positive singularity and we are done with “crunch time” we can decide what to do with sub-sentient life, hopefully as we advance intellectually the solution will become more apparent.
Since we know our preferences and utility’s are formed from a combination of genetics and experiences we start to realize that a Alien God had great influence on our genetic “wants” or preferences. Therefore as we transform mentally using the master lifehack and understand the way our mind works better we can distinguish which genetic preferences are useful to our sanity and utility, and which ones we should try to life-hack our way out of.
However, in a post positive singularity world where someone can manipulate their body and mind as they please where do we draw the line for sentience? One of my overlying questions has always been if we do successfully make it to a positive singularity, what differentiates between life that we should let grow naturally and life that we shouldn’t give the ability to choose. Just because we are one step ahead of our animal brothers in the evolutionary ladder, does that mean we can live our lives according to our every wants while they spend time fighting in their natural habitat? Do we help them advance to sentience and if so where do we draw the line?
Harry has many conflicts with the line between sub-sentient/sentient life in HPMOR, but everyone including Herminone fails to understand his distress at the issue. The only reason my morality allows me to lay this issue on the back-burner is because right now all we can do is speculate about these issues for mental relaxation and pleasure. Harry had magic which he knew could set right which was once set wrong and the topic nearly consumed him before he made the decision to let a rationalization stand for sake of humanity. Once we have a positive singularity and we are done with “crunch time” we can decide what to do with sub-sentient life, hopefully as we advance intellectually the solution will become more apparent.