How does our life compare to the life of a limpet? I don’t think their 10/10 joy is lesser than our 10/10 joy, and also with 10/10 suffering. What makes us more ‘alive’ is the level of detail between -10 and 10. The terror of an imagined bad interaction could be an incredible combination of joy and suffering that would not really register if you were a limpit. But we would feel the loss of a relative a lot more keenly. So would you trade with a limpit, or deal with the horrors of the human condition? – awv