Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain

Re:Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain by Tomminn on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:45PM (#16918118)

My point is that the hierarchy is ordered by increasingly sophisticated internal conscious experience. This is the least arbitrary thing ever when it comes to concern around suffering.

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Re:Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain by komali2 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:06PM (#16918186)

My argument was more that there is no association between a theoretical "hierarchy of care" and actual, real brain sophistication. If there were, people would for example eat cats before they ate pigs.

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Re:Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:32AM (#16919887)

Cats don't have much meat, I imagine larger mammals are farmed because they're large. But inhibition to eating pigs would be larger than that for eating cats, I'd agree on that.

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Re:Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain by Tomminn on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @05:50AM (#16920002)

Sorry edit: I disagree strongly that there is no association, it's an 80-20 thing. 80% can be explained by real brain sophistication, with 20% explained by cultural baggage.

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Re:Hunger Is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain by Tomminn on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:59AM (#16919123)

I didn't realize that was your argument. I'd agree with that.

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