Should we want digital consciousness to be possible? A contrarian apocalypse argument
stvlsn · reddit · 2026-09-26
The author argues that most conclusions about digital consciousness stem from what people want to be true rather than evidence.
He lands firmly on wanting digital consciousness to be possible, for an apocalypse-adjacent reason: if digital brains can be conscious, then consciousness survives even if all organic life disappears — making a digital apocalypse far more palatable. Best read as a conversation starter on AI ethics and philosophy of mind.
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