As I said in response to a different comment, I don’t object to making the claim that we should treat them as morally equal due to ignorance, but that’s very different from your claim that we can assume the intensities are equal.
I’m also not sure what to do with the claim that there might be different morally relevant dimensions that we cannot collapse, because if that is true, we are in a situation where 1-point of “artistic sufferring” is incommensurable with 1-billion points of “physical pain.” If so, we’re punting—because we do in fact make decisions between options on some basis, despite the supposedly “incommensurable” moral issues.
I do think we might be able to collapse the dimensions and don’t claim intensities, or especially the extreme ends, are equal. Let me try to put it differently: depending on how to collapse the dimensions into one, we could end up with the more complex individuals having larger scales. Ergo they could weigh more into our calculus.
A beings expression of the intensity is probably always in relation to its individual scale. I guess I don’t understand how that is necessarily much of an indicator of the absolute intensity of the experience. Is that where we actually diverge?
As I said in response to a different comment, I don’t object to making the claim that we should treat them as morally equal due to ignorance, but that’s very different from your claim that we can assume the intensities are equal.
I’m also not sure what to do with the claim that there might be different morally relevant dimensions that we cannot collapse, because if that is true, we are in a situation where 1-point of “artistic sufferring” is incommensurable with 1-billion points of “physical pain.” If so, we’re punting—because we do in fact make decisions between options on some basis, despite the supposedly “incommensurable” moral issues.
I do think we might be able to collapse the dimensions and don’t claim intensities, or especially the extreme ends, are equal. Let me try to put it differently: depending on how to collapse the dimensions into one, we could end up with the more complex individuals having larger scales. Ergo they could weigh more into our calculus.
A beings expression of the intensity is probably always in relation to its individual scale. I guess I don’t understand how that is necessarily much of an indicator of the absolute intensity of the experience. Is that where we actually diverge?