Do you make any distinction between “pain” and “suffering”? I tend to separate them, and I put a lot more weight on suffering, which I think of as an emotional/cognitive experience. Suffering quite plausibly is non-linear in brain-complexity, with more complex beings experiencing it trillions of times more intensely than simpler ones.
I use them both to refer to a kind of unpleasant experience.
While it might be that what you’re saying is correct, it’s at least plausible that creatures with simple minds—so long as they still perform normal functions—can suffer intensely https://benthams.substack.com/p/betting-on-ubiquitous-pain. So for that reason it’s still very bad in expectation.
Do you make any distinction between “pain” and “suffering”? I tend to separate them, and I put a lot more weight on suffering, which I think of as an emotional/cognitive experience. Suffering quite plausibly is non-linear in brain-complexity, with more complex beings experiencing it trillions of times more intensely than simpler ones.
I use them both to refer to a kind of unpleasant experience.
While it might be that what you’re saying is correct, it’s at least plausible that creatures with simple minds—so long as they still perform normal functions—can suffer intensely https://benthams.substack.com/p/betting-on-ubiquitous-pain. So for that reason it’s still very bad in expectation.