Same,more neurons create more complexity but not necessarily more acute distress. Although you could imagine there’s only so much distress a 100 neurons could create. That being said if you watch a bacteria get killed by another it quite clearly is not enjoying it
Would it not be relative? If sentience were to emerge from just 100 neurons, wouldn’t their experience of terror be the same as our own? I mean, you could argue that ego is required for true suffering, but I think there is a more fundamental biological aspect that ensures all species capable of moving out of the fire are incentivized to do so.
i have always assumed its on a spectrum
Same,more neurons create more complexity but not necessarily more acute distress. Although you could imagine there’s only so much distress a 100 neurons could create. That being said if you watch a bacteria get killed by another it quite clearly is not enjoying it
Watching a bacteria enjoying or not something is pareidolia. It’s reacting, for sure, and activating emergency responses.
Aren’t you?
Yes but with extra steps.
Would it not be relative? If sentience were to emerge from just 100 neurons, wouldn’t their experience of terror be the same as our own? I mean, you could argue that ego is required for true suffering, but I think there is a more fundamental biological aspect that ensures all species capable of moving out of the fire are incentivized to do so.
how much do you value a couple chemicals floating around and locking into place, circumstantially?
relevance of inherently subjective valuation?