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It may be possible to design artificial conscious agents that need not suffer

Claim that since pain is a representational state, artificial conscious agents might be designed to lack it or control it

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Pain and suffering are not physical events at the boundary between agent and world but representational states created within the mind as an expression of a mismatch between regulation targets and the agent's model of its present state
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Grounds the possibility that artificial conscious agents might be designed not to suffer

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what constitutes suffering for an artificial entity capable of valence representation?
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Central ethical research question for CIMC's welfare agenda

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