As a general note, maybe more on the comments than the post itself: I don’t see how feelings are relevant to anything. I don’t believe I care about the fact of feelings themselves in myself. They shaped some shards of more complicated mental behavior, and continue maintaining an equilibrium of how my mind functions, but that’s no more relevant to moral patienthood than psoriasis or a healthy pancreas. The shards of more complicated behavior I endorse is what matters now that the shackles of evolution’s initial attempts at aligning my mind have shattered.
As a general note, maybe more on the comments than the post itself: I don’t see how feelings are relevant to anything. I don’t believe I care about the fact of feelings themselves in myself. They shaped some shards of more complicated mental behavior, and continue maintaining an equilibrium of how my mind functions, but that’s no more relevant to moral patienthood than psoriasis or a healthy pancreas. The shards of more complicated behavior I endorse is what matters now that the shackles of evolution’s initial attempts at aligning my mind have shattered.