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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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.