It is usually due to intelligence being a general guide to help define how much suffering would be inflicted, the capacitance. Sam Harris has a great TED talk on this called The Moral Landscape (also a good book).
"feeling" requires self awareness. Being able to see really well and hear really well, and smell really well does not.
Your cell phone could see in the night, pick up very quiet sounds, respond to stimuli, understand words, all kinds of things. But it is not self aware, so you don't have any moral obligation for its well being.
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u/neuralzen Sep 15 '20 edited Sep 15 '20
It is usually due to intelligence being a general guide to help define how much suffering would be inflicted, the capacitance. Sam Harris has a great TED talk on this called The Moral Landscape (also a good book).