The paper wasn’t trying to assess insect sentience, but was evaluating welfare considerations for crickets due to the potential risk of cricket sentience from a precautionary principle perspective. So it doesn’t go into detail on cricket sentience, and primarily refers to this paper as a primer on why we might take insect pain as a potential reality.
For a more thorough background on insect sentience, I recommend Rethink Priorities Invertebrate Sentience series, and Moral Weight Project (though neither looked at crickets specifically).
Does this address the odds and extent of cricket sentience?
The paper wasn’t trying to assess insect sentience, but was evaluating welfare considerations for crickets due to the potential risk of cricket sentience from a precautionary principle perspective. So it doesn’t go into detail on cricket sentience, and primarily refers to this paper as a primer on why we might take insect pain as a potential reality.
For a more thorough background on insect sentience, I recommend Rethink Priorities Invertebrate Sentience series, and Moral Weight Project (though neither looked at crickets specifically).
Thanks for the recommendations!