The Open Philanthropy Project spoke with Dr. Rose of the University of Wyoming 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. The main topic of
this conversation was whether a cortex (or perhaps a neocortex) is required for
consciousness.
