@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.
@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.