CarlShulman comments on Arguments Against Speciesism - Less Wrong
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You linked to a page comparing brain-to-body-weight ratios, rather than any absolute features of the brain, and referring not to ants in general but to unusually miniaturized ants in which the rest of the body is shrunken. That seems pretty irrelevant.
I was using total brain mass and neuron count, not brain-to-body-mass.
I agree these are relevant evidence about quality of experience, and whether to attribute experience at all. But I would say that quality and quantity of experience are distinguishable (although the absence of experience implies quantity 0).