Ok, so you want to know if whales experience more suffering than ants? And you’re proposing a way to do this that involves putting them into an fMRI scanner? That seems like not the best way of asking or answering the question of how much does being X suffer and how does it compare to being Y.
I did not propose putting whales into fMRI scanners. I would not have proposed trying to weigh distant stars with a scale either, yet somehow we’ve learned how to say some things about their mass and contents.
What are the consequences of the answers you get? If newborns show less neural asynchrony, does that mean its morally acceptable to torture them? Or does that mean they are more at peace, so it’s less morally acceptable to torture them?
I did not propose putting whales into fMRI scanners. I would not have proposed trying to weigh distant stars with a scale either, yet somehow we’ve learned how to say some things about their mass and contents.
This is difficult to read as in good faith.