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ok, but how similar exactly? Insects are animals...do insects feel pain?
by em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
ok, but how similar exactly? Insects are animals...do insects feel pain?
- StavrosK 9y agoThat's a reasonable assumption, until we can prove they don't.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoSo where and how can you draw the line. Ameobas? Sponges? The first brains (which appears in worms 500 million years ago)?
- StavrosK 9y agoYes, if you can avoid causing pain to all of those, do. Is that such a problem?
- mannykannot 9y agoThis line of argument isn't going anywhere useful, no matter how many times you repeat it.
- mojomark 9y agoYou should try actually reading the article, which gives several different examples of interesting behavioral experiments to infer the conscious decision of certain fish to avoid painful experiences (without requiring the fish to tell us on a scale of 1 to 10 'how much it hurts' in fishspeak).
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoThe article stimulated the fish in ways that humans feel pain and then observed the behavior of the fish. All that tells us is that the fish merely prefer avoiding those stimuli.
- goldenkey 9y agoIf you want to continue that argument along, head down Solipsism. You are the only conscious being. Everyone else is just performing actions but they arent truly conscious. They say they feel pain, they avoid it. But they could just be like the fish. This is the story of YOU. You are the main char. The rest? They are automotons, cause and effect. You only know that you feel. Everyone else is merely an external cue..deceiving you in some respect...but really, the fact is, you cant tell. Neither can we. Thats the game of brains in a box. Life...