Agreed but I’m more of a robert sapolsky fan on the subject. Sam’s silly idea of maximizing well-being to solve for morality is very low level. I would go as far to say the consciousness is emergent as a result of our brain grappling with language which separates the body that acts in the world ...

There are epistemological limits wich make it such that we cant make these definitive ontological claims. Its a nice hypothesis though.