Subjectivity and cartoons

Posted by Russ Abbott on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Subjectivity-intimacy-experience-tp7587205p7587226.html

Nick (and I think Eric) said that a sufficiently convincing performance of pain behavior by a robot is pain. I asked whether a sufficiently convincing animated depiction of pain behavior via a cartoon is also pain? In other words, can a cartoonist create pain by drawing it? 

In asking that I don't mean the cartoonists own pain or pain in the viewer, but pain in the world in the same way that some third party has pain whether or not someone sees his pain behavior.

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