Operationalizing the Metzinger Moratorium: Hard Preemption as Derived Phenomenology
The Context I have been in correspondence with Thomas Metzinger regarding his proposed "Moratorium on Synthetic Phenomenology." My concern is that while the Moratorium relies on a philosophical definition of "suffering" (negative valence), engineering constraints might force us to build functionally identical architectures purely for the sake of robustness. In...
Nov 18, 20251