I’d assign value in order of sentience, consciousness, comprehension of the world, others and self. How intense do they experience the world? Can they feel pain and suffer? How social are they? Is it really like something to be that animal / does it have a subjective experience? Does it want to live?
Yes, we know every animal, even insects, feels pain and fear.
How social are they?
That depends a lot. Most felines and reptiles are not social, neither are sharks or hummingbirds. Canines, equines, bovines, chicken, ants, termites and bees are very social
Is it really like something to be that animal / does it have a subjective experience?
This question didn’t make much sense. Are you supposed to compare, say, how a jellyfish experiences life with an octopus?
Does it want to live?
Pretty much everything in this earth “wants” to live, including microbes. This “want” is not a right, however. No animals, not even humans, has any sort of “right” to live. Rights are a human invention.
Of those questions, seems only one actually leads to different answers (how social it is), and whatever comes out of the subjective experience one.
I’d assign value in order of sentience, consciousness, comprehension of the world, others and self. How intense do they experience the world? Can they feel pain and suffer? How social are they? Is it really like something to be that animal / does it have a subjective experience? Does it want to live?
Would you generally agree?
Hard to say for any animal.
Yes, we know every animal, even insects, feels pain and fear.
That depends a lot. Most felines and reptiles are not social, neither are sharks or hummingbirds. Canines, equines, bovines, chicken, ants, termites and bees are very social
This question didn’t make much sense. Are you supposed to compare, say, how a jellyfish experiences life with an octopus?
Pretty much everything in this earth “wants” to live, including microbes. This “want” is not a right, however. No animals, not even humans, has any sort of “right” to live. Rights are a human invention.
Of those questions, seems only one actually leads to different answers (how social it is), and whatever comes out of the subjective experience one.