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Uriah Kriegel (Rice) Consciousness and the Good Life
Mon, 12 Oct
|Senate House, London WC1B, UK
Time & Location
12 Oct 2020, 16:00 – 17:00
Senate House, London WC1B, UK
Abstract
There is a strong intuition that a zombie’s life is never good or bad for the zombie. This suggests a link between consciousness and the good life. What, if anything, explains this apparent link? In this paper, I consider five possible explanations of this link, plus the option of rejecting the intuition that a zombie’s life is never worth living. I point out the considerable costs of each option, and although one of the putative explanations strikes me as somewhat less problematic than the others, I conclude that we do have something of a puzzle on our hands regarding the link between consciousness and the good life.
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