Dan Faggella: valuing consciousness means loving the living process that produces it
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-07
In an interview, AI consciousness researcher Dan Faggella explains his divergence from David Pearce and other consciousness-first thinkers. While valence (conscious experience) is the most valuable thing he has access to, consciousness emerges from the living process — "if you like the fruit, you better love the tree." He argues that as life expands, new kinds of value may bubble up that we cannot yet imagine, so the thrival of the living process must be primary.
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