It’s a risk, to be sure, that the aggregate suffering of insects would exceed the same weight in cattle; however it’s probably uncommon to expect that so I, like nshepperd, am curious where your expectation comes from. (which reminds me, I’m sure glad somebody has ideas about how to do consciousness research—I couldn’t possibly!)
I guess my basic reason for thinking so is because there is around six order of magnitude difference in how much meat a cow provides and how much meat a cricket provides. But if you think about which attributes provide evidence of consciousness, I don’t think you’ll find that cows do not have vastly more of these than do crickets and cricket consciousness seems like a reasonable hypothesis.
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It’s a risk, to be sure, that the aggregate suffering of insects would exceed the same weight in cattle; however it’s probably uncommon to expect that so I, like nshepperd, am curious where your expectation comes from. (which reminds me, I’m sure glad somebody has ideas about how to do consciousness research—I couldn’t possibly!)
Thanks, I fixed those typos.
I guess my basic reason for thinking so is because there is around six order of magnitude difference in how much meat a cow provides and how much meat a cricket provides. But if you think about which attributes provide evidence of consciousness, I don’t think you’ll find that cows do not have vastly more of these than do crickets and cricket consciousness seems like a reasonable hypothesis.