How much confidence would you give to the statement: “Whiteleg shrimps are sentient”?
Justification for my vote: High credence given that I also believe many insects of similar size are sentient too. But my credence is highly volatile to further evidence, given that we lack a lot of empirical information and we don’t know much the correct philosophy of mind either.
See the paper “Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence” by Gibbons et al. here for the Birch framework applied to insects. (Feel free to skip to the conclusion if you just want the quick takeaway).
Justification for my vote: High credence given that I also believe many insects of similar size are sentient too. But my credence is highly volatile to further evidence, given that we lack a lot of empirical information and we don’t know much the correct philosophy of mind either.
See the paper “Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence” by Gibbons et al. here for the Birch framework applied to insects. (Feel free to skip to the conclusion if you just want the quick takeaway).