Dr. James D. Rose, Professor Emeritus of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming

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.

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