The Fourth World
Is consciousness the last moral world?Imagine trying to explain to a virus why suffering matters.A virus is a simple self-replicating molecule: unsophisticated and arguably not even alive. It has no experience. It just copies itself according to chemical laws. From its “perspective” (it doesn’t have one), the universe is just physics: particles following rules. If you could somehow tell it that certain arrangements of matter are good and others are bad, it wouldn’t disagree with you. It does not
By Linch