#1070 Cláudia Passos Ferreira: The Development of Consciousness and Morality
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm our I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Claudia Pasforre. She is an assistant professor of bioethics at New York University. Her current research program focuses on the development of consciousness, including what theories of consciousness say about infant consciousness and machine consciousness, and how these theories shed light on ethical issues. And so we're talking about the development of consciousness and morality today. So Dr. Pas Farer, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Welcome. Thank you very much for having me. Okay.
Right, so Uh tell us first, how do we determine that a particular being is conscious? I mean, how do we go about determining that, for example, an infant and non-human animal is conscious? Are there particular tests that We can use or what? Uh yeah, this is a uh a very good question to start because it's right on on the focus of my current research.
So so For a creature like us, adults, uh human beings, we usually rely on what we call verbal reports. So I ask you, are you perceiving this stimulus? Are you re hearing the sound? Are you seeing this uh uh Visual input.
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