Hmm, I guess I also had in mind extensions to other animals, artificial minds, etc.. I don’t think you can use the same argument about similar neurophysiology and behaviour to rule out rescalings for them.
I agree that you can probably rule out arbitrary rescalings between typical humans based on an argument like yours, specifically using brain activity in specific brain regions responsible for desire.
I think other responses could be more or less strong somewhat independently of brain activity, although won’t typically vary too much. For example, some people could tolerate stronger desires (or stronger desires) of a certain kind before acting compared to others, or try harder to or find it easier to mute their responses. Also, some apparent pain responses don’t even require processing in the brain, i.e. the withdrawal reflex, and those could be more or less strong independently of pain intensity. People could interpret pain scales differently, too, so we can’t match pain reports, either.
Hmm, I guess I also had in mind extensions to other animals, artificial minds, etc.. I don’t think you can use the same argument about similar neurophysiology and behaviour to rule out rescalings for them.
I agree that you can probably rule out arbitrary rescalings between typical humans based on an argument like yours, specifically using brain activity in specific brain regions responsible for desire.
I think other responses could be more or less strong somewhat independently of brain activity, although won’t typically vary too much. For example, some people could tolerate stronger desires (or stronger desires) of a certain kind before acting compared to others, or try harder to or find it easier to mute their responses. Also, some apparent pain responses don’t even require processing in the brain, i.e. the withdrawal reflex, and those could be more or less strong independently of pain intensity. People could interpret pain scales differently, too, so we can’t match pain reports, either.