The Open Philanthropy Project spoke with Professor Chalmers of NYU as part of its investigation into which types of beings should be of moral concern, and thus a potential target for the Open Philanthropy Project’s grantmaking. This conversation
focused on one particular factor plausibly relevant to whether a being should be of moral concern or not — namely, whether that being is phenomenally conscious, and what the character of its conscious experience is. Conversation topics included possible approaches to the question of distribution and character of phenomenal consciousness, and ideas for stimulating more philosophical work in this area.
