“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive; others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear; others are being slowly devoured from within by rasping parasites; thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst and disease.”
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- Sentience in Animals
- Speculative sentience
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- Project 1. Is there more suffering than enjoyment in nature?
- Project 2. P-zombies and motivation
- Project 3. Useful or inevitable? Emergentism versus Dualism
- Project 4. Simulation of pleasure and orgasm
- Project 5. Non materialistic physicalism
- Project 6. Gradients of bliss
- Project 7. Evolution of simulated hypotheses about sentience
- Project 8. Medical decision support systems
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