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    It is unwarranted to require that intelligent creatures must be capable of enjoying the same things humans enjoy

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    • 1.Aristotle's functionalism holds that flourishing is defined by the exercise of a being's distinctive capacities, not by conformity to another species' capacities.
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    • 2.If intelligence admits of multiple realizations, then the goods proper to intelligence need not be identical across all intelligent beings.
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    • 3.Requiring shared enjoyments conflates the formal criterion of intelligence with the contingent sensory constitution of one biological lineage.
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    • 1.Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat' establishes that subjective experience is constitutively tied to a creature's particular sensory and cognitive architecture.
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    • 2.If enjoyment is partly constituted by subjective experience, then the content of what a being enjoys is constrained by its architecture, not by external human standards.
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    • 1.A creature that cannot enjoy strawberries and cream need not thereby be considered deficient
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    • 2.An intelligent creature ought to have the capacity to enjoy some kinds of things, but not necessarily human-specific things
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    • 3.Insisting intelligent creatures must enjoy human-specific pleasures is unduly chauvinistic
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    An interesting question to ask, before we address these claims directly, is whether we should suppose that intelligent creatures from some other part of the universe would necessarily be able to do these things. Why, for example, should we suppose that there must be something deficient about a creature that does not enjoy—or that is not able to enjoy—strawberries and cream? True enough, we might suppose that an intelligent creature ought to have the capacity to enjoy some kinds of things—but it
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