What you really want to look at-I haven’t properly-is the literature on what determines pain intensity, and, relatedly, what makes pain feel bad rather than good, and what makes pain morally bad. That’ll tell you something about how friendly current theory is to “more neurons=more intense experiences”, even if the papers in the literature don’t specifically discuss whether that is true.
That is probably a good idea, although the burden of proof isn’t really on me here. It’s on the proponent of using neuron count as a proxy for moral weight. But it would be interesting if they did that, indeed.
What you really want to look at-I haven’t properly-is the literature on what determines pain intensity, and, relatedly, what makes pain feel bad rather than good, and what makes pain morally bad. That’ll tell you something about how friendly current theory is to “more neurons=more intense experiences”, even if the papers in the literature don’t specifically discuss whether that is true.
That is probably a good idea, although the burden of proof isn’t really on me here. It’s on the proponent of using neuron count as a proxy for moral weight. But it would be interesting if they did that, indeed.