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I'm not sure what you're getting at here by binding "feelings" and "response"; I think our terminology is getting confused.
I'll clarify my earlier comment by saying that when it comes to figuring out if something is an entity which I should behave morally towards, I'm only really interested in conscious feelings. Response to stimuli alone, without conscious experience, shouldn't have any moral weight. And inversely, if something can consciously experience pain but is unable to respond to it, it is immoral to hurt it.
Ah. I see consciousness as the ability to interrupt 'instinctive' response with a measured or planned response. And feelings as the middle stage between action and reaction, conscious or no.
I do not privilege conscious experience, just because I absolutely enjoy it. It sounds like you do.