There's a big difference @falcennial between “it seems intuitively obvious to me” versus “it's an objective truth of reality”.
Much though we can look at an insect and *feel* that it has a mind capable of emotions, that's not evidence of it being true. That's the mistake of #anthropomorphism.
Otherwise we'd have to take people's *feeling* that an LLM chatbot has a mind, as evidence it's true. Yet it's objectively false; they are simply incapable of any mind or experience.
So, yeah it needs a lot of careful work to demonstrate *whether* what feels true about insects, is objectively true.