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    It is not the case that It is unwarranted to require that intelligent creatures must be capable of enjoying the same things humans enjoy

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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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    • 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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