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rejectednocomments t1_iwibqx8 wrote

Reply to comment by Squark09 in Utilitarianism is the only option — but you have to take conscious experience seriously first by Squark09

What do you mean by consciousness being valenced, and what do you mean by closed individualism?

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Squark09 OP t1_iwidy43 wrote

Valenced means it can be intrinsically good or bad, suffering is intrinsically bad, joy is intrinsically good.

Closed individualism (nice description from https://qri.org/glossary ): "In its most basic form, this is the common-sense personal identity view that you start existing when you are born and stop existing when you die. According to this view each person is a different subject of experience with an independent existence. One can believe in a soul ontology and be a Closed Individualist at the same time, with the correction that you exist as long as your soul exists, which could be the case even before or after death."

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Nickesponja t1_iwj1pit wrote

It seems like the majority of people would accept closed individualism and would therefore have no use for this argument.

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