Personally I’m dubious whether negative findings if they occurred would be promoted/​taken seriously given how motivated most people involved here to be recognized/​funded etc.
I am not sure I understand this. People at Arthropoda have an incentive to promote and take seriously negative findings about ways to help farmed arthropods such that the scarce available resources to do this are not wasted. You may be referring to findinds which should update one towards prioritising humans over animals, but Arthropoda is not focussed on this. My concern is that they are not prioritising soil arthropods enough.
@Vasco Grilo🔸 I wasn’t clear sorry, i meant negative findings in the scientific sense, in this case unremarkable findings that might provide evidence against insect sentience. Have edited above hope it’s more clear now.
And my comment didn’t address your soil arthropods concern, it was an unrelated point about Anthropoda. i think i failed on clarity here...
I thought quite some people who are doing insect sentience research were skeptical about it to start with. Yes, they mostly already cared about animals. Negative findings would help people to reorient toward animals that are more evidently sentient, and I do think people will be motivated to promote that conclusion.
Thanks, Nick.
I am not sure I understand this. People at Arthropoda have an incentive to promote and take seriously negative findings about ways to help farmed arthropods such that the scarce available resources to do this are not wasted. You may be referring to findinds which should update one towards prioritising humans over animals, but Arthropoda is not focussed on this. My concern is that they are not prioritising soil arthropods enough.
@Vasco Grilo🔸 I wasn’t clear sorry, i meant negative findings in the scientific sense, in this case unremarkable findings that might provide evidence against insect sentience. Have edited above hope it’s more clear now.
And my comment didn’t address your soil arthropods concern, it was an unrelated point about Anthropoda. i think i failed on clarity here...
I thought quite some people who are doing insect sentience research were skeptical about it to start with. Yes, they mostly already cared about animals. Negative findings would help people to reorient toward animals that are more evidently sentient, and I do think people will be motivated to promote that conclusion.