[etrautmann]

But how would you know? With a patient who has locked-in syndrome they can sense and think but have no ability to move or communicate. How could you tell if your fish brain (or future AI model) has the capacity to think or suffer?

[h0l0cube]

To answer the rhetorical: We don't know (and possibly can't know).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

[addicted]

You’re worried about a “brain” that has orders of magnitude fewer neurons than an ant but in the meanwhile we birth, enslave, sexually abuse, torture and kill over 80 billion land animals that definitely have conscience, sentience and a capacity to suffer.

I do appreciate the concern. It’s very valid but unfortunately pales relative to awful atrocities we humans are enacting everyday in the billions.