What you really want to look at-I havenât 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. Thatâll tell you something about how friendly current theory is to âmore neurons=more intense experiencesâ, even if the papers in the literature donât specifically discuss whether that is true.
That is probably a good idea, although the burden of proof isnât really on me here. Itâs 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 havenât 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. Thatâll tell you something about how friendly current theory is to âmore neurons=more intense experiencesâ, even if the papers in the literature donât specifically discuss whether that is true.
That is probably a good idea, although the burden of proof isnât really on me here. Itâs on the proponent of using neuron count as a proxy for moral weight. But it would be interesting if they did that, indeed.