So I’m not sure that demanding embodiment for moral patienthood is an error.
So, to give a specific example, if you considered a mind upload with conscious states identical to yours (but not embodied), it’s possible it would be morally permissible for (embodied) humans to torture it for fun?
Not a big believer in hypotheticals. Mind uploading gets into some very weird issues. I will leave it to decide to future society when and if that happens. I would say that if people are torturing anything for fun, even if that thing has no capacity for pain, then that doesn’t sound morally good to me.
So, to give a specific example, if you considered a mind upload with conscious states identical to yours (but not embodied), it’s possible it would be morally permissible for (embodied) humans to torture it for fun?
Not a big believer in hypotheticals. Mind uploading gets into some very weird issues. I will leave it to decide to future society when and if that happens. I would say that if people are torturing anything for fun, even if that thing has no capacity for pain, then that doesn’t sound morally good to me.