I don’t think it is operationalizable, but I fail to see why ‘net positive mental states’ isn’t a meaningful, real value. Maybe the units would be apple*minutes or something, where one unit is equivalent to the pleasure you get by eating an apple for one minute. It seems that this could in principle be calculated with full information about everyone’s conscious experience.
I don’t think it is operationalizable, but I fail to see why ‘net positive mental states’ isn’t a meaningful, real value. Maybe the units would be apple*minutes or something, where one unit is equivalent to the pleasure you get by eating an apple for one minute. It seems that this could in principle be calculated with full information about everyone’s conscious experience.