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Suffering is an emotional state triggered by desire. Desire is the attachment of value to imagined experiences.
So there's a minimal level of consciousness required to experience suffering, and a neuron farm probably doesn't meet it, that's why it's not morally significant. What sorts of organisms do meet it is another matter.