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.
It’s a little strange that you don’t mind hypothesizing about how embodiment might be necessary for moral patienthood from embodied agents, but once a counterexample arises, you’re no longer a big believer in hypotheticals.
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.
It’s a little strange that you don’t mind hypothesizing about how embodiment might be necessary for moral patienthood from embodied agents, but once a counterexample arises, you’re no longer a big believer in hypotheticals.