“Have you tried raising up an Owned One with no books that speak one way or another about consciousness, about awareness of oneself, about pain and pleasure as reified things, of lawful rights and freedom—but still shown them enough other pages of words, that they could learn from them to talk—and *then* asked an Owned One what sense if any it had of its own existence, or if it would prefer not to be owned?”
This would be an excellent experiment to run. Has anyone tried doing this?
“Have you tried raising up an Owned One with no books that speak one way or another about consciousness, about awareness of oneself, about pain and pleasure as reified things, of lawful rights and freedom—but still shown them enough other pages of words, that they could learn from them to talk—and *then* asked an Owned One what sense if any it had of its own existence, or if it would prefer not to be owned?”
This would be an excellent experiment to run. Has anyone tried doing this?
Very few people have enough levels in Scientist to run an experiment whose result they might not like.