I get your point—but which behaviors do you consider “complex enough” to be best explained by sentience? Which criterions do they fall into, or rather, where do you cross the line between a very complex system of reflexes and sentience?
On evolutionary incentives, it is true that nociception is particularly well conserved throughout the animal kingdom for this reason, but sentience might be “too expensive” for somes species to get or keep. Directors of Welfare Footprint Institute described this idea as the “sentience bargain” in this post if that’s of interest for readers
I get your point—but which behaviors do you consider “complex enough” to be best explained by sentience? Which criterions do they fall into, or rather, where do you cross the line between a very complex system of reflexes and sentience?
On evolutionary incentives, it is true that nociception is particularly well conserved throughout the animal kingdom for this reason, but sentience might be “too expensive” for somes species to get or keep. Directors of Welfare Footprint Institute described this idea as the “sentience bargain” in this post if that’s of interest for readers
Thanks for your input :)