I’m not sure this metric is relevant : biomass weight is massively dominated by the largest mammals just for the reason that they are big.
Going by this metric, it would mean that having one super obese 400kg individual, or one small cow, counts the same as having 100 human babies (not to talk about elephants).
I think number of individuals is much more relevant here. And there just happens to be a lot of smaller individuals.
Yeah, I didn’t intend to suggest that biomass is actually the metric, but more like, if you believe that the “intensity of experience” ratio is at least as large as the mass ratio (not because of the mass, but because the larger creatures tend to also have more complex brains and behaviour and so on), then actually farmed animals may have at least comparable if not more “total experience” than wild animals.
This is surely true by number but I’m not sure it would be true on all reasonable weightings? See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_(ecology)#/media/File:Terrestrial_biomass.jpg
I’m not sure this metric is relevant : biomass weight is massively dominated by the largest mammals just for the reason that they are big.
Going by this metric, it would mean that having one super obese 400kg individual, or one small cow, counts the same as having 100 human babies (not to talk about elephants).
I think number of individuals is much more relevant here. And there just happens to be a lot of smaller individuals.
Yeah, I didn’t intend to suggest that biomass is actually the metric, but more like, if you believe that the “intensity of experience” ratio is at least as large as the mass ratio (not because of the mass, but because the larger creatures tend to also have more complex brains and behaviour and so on), then actually farmed animals may have at least comparable if not more “total experience” than wild animals.
Oh, as a proxy of that.
I don’t think I agree since I am not convinced that neural count is the relevant metric but I understand better the use of this proxy.