You may be interested in my post Total number of neurons and welfare of animal populations. I estimate soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes together have 413 M (= 1.76*10^23/(4.26*10^14)) times as many neurons as farmed black soldier fly (BSF) larvae and mealworms together, and 2.03 billion (= −7.00*10^15/(-3.44*10^6)) times as much welfare in total for welfare per animal-year proportional to “number of neurons as a fraction of that of humans”^0.5. As illustrated below, the ratio is huge for other exponents besides 0.5.
Hi Hannah and Sagar,
You may be interested in my post Total number of neurons and welfare of animal populations. I estimate soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes together have 413 M (= 1.76*10^23/(4.26*10^14)) times as many neurons as farmed black soldier fly (BSF) larvae and mealworms together, and 2.03 billion (= −7.00*10^15/(-3.44*10^6)) times as much welfare in total for welfare per animal-year proportional to “number of neurons as a fraction of that of humans”^0.5. As illustrated below, the ratio is huge for other exponents besides 0.5.