What indicators of consciousness do you expect mammals and birds to have that insects don’t? (Edited to avoid suggesting I’m only asking about the criteria in this post.)
I think criteria 5-8 suggest it’s not mere nociception. Of course, they might not establish consciousness, but what more do you expect to do so?
Personally, I’m very sympathetic to Luke Muehlhauser’s views in that report and, in particular, illusionism and AST (he doesn’t explicitly endorse AST, but I think he said it was the closest attempt), and I still don’t think they rule out insect consciousness or imply we should assign it very low probability. He gave fruit flies 10% and 25% probabilities of consciousness in that report, with 25% closer to his actual views at the time. This seems too high to completely ignore.
What indicators of consciousness do you expect mammals and birds to have that insects don’t? (Edited to avoid suggesting I’m only asking about the criteria in this post.)
I think criteria 5-8 suggest it’s not mere nociception. Of course, they might not establish consciousness, but what more do you expect to do so?
Personally, I’m very sympathetic to Luke Muehlhauser’s views in that report and, in particular, illusionism and AST (he doesn’t explicitly endorse AST, but I think he said it was the closest attempt), and I still don’t think they rule out insect consciousness or imply we should assign it very low probability. He gave fruit flies 10% and 25% probabilities of consciousness in that report, with 25% closer to his actual views at the time. This seems too high to completely ignore.