Neuron count intuitively seems to be a better proxy for the variety/complexity/richness of positive experience. Then you can have an argument about how you wouldn’t want to just increase intensity of pleasure, that just a relative number. That what matters is that pleasure is interesting. And so you would assign lesser weights to less rich experience. You can also generalize this argument to negative experiences—maybe you don’t want to consider pain to be ten times worse just because someone multiplied some number by 10.
But I would think that the broader spectrum of potential sources for pleasure and pain would still not require a greater spectrum of intensity.
Neuron count intuitively seems to be a better proxy for the variety/complexity/richness of positive experience. Then you can have an argument about how you wouldn’t want to just increase intensity of pleasure, that just a relative number. That what matters is that pleasure is interesting. And so you would assign lesser weights to less rich experience. You can also generalize this argument to negative experiences—maybe you don’t want to consider pain to be ten times worse just because someone multiplied some number by 10.
Isn’t pain in both wings worse than in one?