>>728679from your substack link:
>In my view, the way to determine whether impacting the environment is good or not is pretty simple: you look at the impact it has on conscious beings—both humans and other animals. I don’t care intrinsically about biodiversity—I care about making lives better for individuals. Species do not have experiences, only individuals do. It is thus individuals that matter. If species A has wretched lives and gets replaced by species B who have much better lives, I think that’s an improvement. This is very Maggie Thatcher flavored in some ways. She said there is no such thing as society, only individuals. But if an individual's experiences are an
emergent property of the communication 100 billion brain cells, then
why wouldn't there be other forms of collective intelligence that emerge between more complex entities?