That’s a nice point. What life satisfaction views require more specifically is not just that the entity thinks about its life as a whole, but that it thinks about its life as a whole and makes a judgement about how its life is going overall. It’s rather implausible animals do that latter thing, which means they have no well-being on this theory.
That’s a nice point. What life satisfaction views require more specifically is not just that the entity thinks about its life as a whole, but that it thinks about its life as a whole and makes a judgement about how its life is going overall. It’s rather implausible animals do that latter thing, which means they have no well-being on this theory.