Nozick's experience machine backs the view that interests aren't just experiential
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-03
Continuing his argument on AI moral status, dioscuri points to cases where people are intuitively benefited or harmed in non-experiential ways — Nozick's experience machine and Shelley Kagan's deceived businessman — supporting a view where interests aren't solely experiential, tied to his claim that consciousness with an inner life is the entry to the moral circle.
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