Yeah, that’s a fair point, maybe I haven’t seen it because no one has considered how to do the weighting at all outside EA. But my sense is that at the very least many theories are unfriendly to weighting by neuron count (though probably not all).
My inclination was that they were more cognitive pathway theories of how pain works, that might help answer the question on how likely animals were to feel pain rather than thinking much about quantifying that ( which is where neuron count might come in). But I skim read and didn’t understand about half of it well so could easily have missed things.
Yeah, that’s a fair point, maybe I haven’t seen it because no one has considered how to do the weighting at all outside EA. But my sense is that at the very least many theories are unfriendly to weighting by neuron count (though probably not all).
My inclination was that they were more cognitive pathway theories of how pain works, that might help answer the question on how likely animals were to feel pain rather than thinking much about quantifying that ( which is where neuron count might come in). But I skim read and didn’t understand about half of it well so could easily have missed things.