I am as much a naturalist dualist as you are (see here), and I also find extremely suprising how confidently you write about fish suffering (even chickens are a doubtful case!). As a naturalistic dualist, you know how hard is to assess conscience (the ultimate noumenon).
My intuition is that conscient experience grows far more than linearly (perhaps exponentially!) with the size of the supporintg neural network. If this happens, the ample mayority of concience is concentrated in the apex taxa, while aggregate moral value of lower taxa is small (even if the number of individuals is massively bigger).
Additionally, I made a some comments about your overconfidence on foreign policy, where all moral issues are dependent on historical counterfactuals. It is very easy to show that politician’s arguments in this field are often absurd (the Chomsky method), but in general public declarations are purely instrumental.
On the other hand, the American Hegemony is the basis of a global integrated economy, and it has been an age of peace and global income convergence. Could you argue against American Foreing policy in a consequalist basis? What is the alternative you have in mind?
I am as much a naturalist dualist as you are (see here), and I also find extremely suprising how confidently you write about fish suffering (even chickens are a doubtful case!). As a naturalistic dualist, you know how hard is to assess conscience (the ultimate noumenon).
My intuition is that conscient experience grows far more than linearly (perhaps exponentially!) with the size of the supporintg neural network. If this happens, the ample mayority of concience is concentrated in the apex taxa, while aggregate moral value of lower taxa is small (even if the number of individuals is massively bigger).
Additionally, I made a some comments about your overconfidence on foreign policy, where all moral issues are dependent on historical counterfactuals. It is very easy to show that politician’s arguments in this field are often absurd (the Chomsky method), but in general public declarations are purely instrumental.
On the other hand, the American Hegemony is the basis of a global integrated economy, and it has been an age of peace and global income convergence. Could you argue against American Foreing policy in a consequalist basis? What is the alternative you have in mind?