Is it plausible that hedonic experience or desires are a judgement about how well things are going right now? If certain welfare subjects are psychologically disconnected from their pasts and futures or otherwise unable to judge them all together, then we might think of each moment of their life as a separate welfare subject, each with their own life satisfaction, which is exactly how they feel at that moment. This way, life satisfaction reduces to hedonism or preference satisfaction for nonhuman animals.
Is it plausible that hedonic experience or desires are a judgement about how well things are going right now? If certain welfare subjects are psychologically disconnected from their pasts and futures or otherwise unable to judge them all together, then we might think of each moment of their life as a separate welfare subject, each with their own life satisfaction, which is exactly how they feel at that moment. This way, life satisfaction reduces to hedonism or preference satisfaction for nonhuman animals.