Claiming the “quantitative model” doesn’t rely on behavioral proxies is technically true but misses the point I think.
The model looks mainly at physiological responses to stimuli. It seems similar to the behavioral model in that if some physiological thing like heart rate or respiration or stress level changes in A similar way to a human then they get a similar score to a human.
I can see the idea with behavioral proxies but I struggle to see what this model really adds. They then seem to bend over backwards somewhat to add other neurological measures that are not neuron count and that will bump up the moral weight as much as possible. “brain mass to body mass ratio” seems especially strange to me in this front
Claiming the “quantitative model” doesn’t rely on behavioral proxies is technically true but misses the point I think.
The model looks mainly at physiological responses to stimuli. It seems similar to the behavioral model in that if some physiological thing like heart rate or respiration or stress level changes in A similar way to a human then they get a similar score to a human.
I can see the idea with behavioral proxies but I struggle to see what this model really adds. They then seem to bend over backwards somewhat to add other neurological measures that are not neuron count and that will bump up the moral weight as much as possible. “brain mass to body mass ratio” seems especially strange to me in this front
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