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How do you prove that an animal has sensation?
by mysecretaccount 3y ago
How do you prove that an animal has sensation?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- scotty79 3y agoWhat does sensation mean in this context and how is it different from perception?
- fluoridation 3y agoSensation is perception related to direct contact, so for humans for example it would include the senses of touch, pain, and taste, among others.
- scotty79 3y agoSo you don't say that you percieve stimuli with touch, taste and pain receptors? Instead you should say that you sense it? I'm not a native speaker. That's why I'm curious about the distinction.
- fluoridation 3y agoYes, you perceive things you touch, because perception encompasses each and every sense. "To sense" does not mean exactly to use sensation. "To sense" can either be used as a synonym of "to perceive" or as a vaguer form of awareness. For example, you could say that you "sense danger" even when nothing is immediately threatening, if you can see various signs that all put together point to something being wrong.
- Daniel_sk 3y agoCapacity to suffer.
- ericmay 3y agoHow do you prove that a human has sensation?
- yieldcrv 3y agoEven in other metrics like the mirror test, plenty of children in various cultures fail because they don’t know what you want them to do, or care And then we try to get an animal half that age to prove to us the same thing, for our own inconsequential hubris It is pretty ridiculous
- mysecretaccount 3y agoYou can't.
- jjtheblunt 3y agosee if it reacts to touch?
- zvmaz 3y agoSimilarity with our own physical constitution? Similarity of behavior when we are in pain and they are in pain? And all the other cues that tell us that, indeed, they are sentient beings?
- duncan-donuts 3y agoEver watched someone work on a chickens feet that have a staph infection? Seems like the infection must hurt like hell because chickens won’t stand on it and limp around. Watching someone treat these infections you’d think chickens pretty much don’t feel pain. I don’t think your suggestion is as clear-cut as you think it is.
- ericd 3y agoNot having sensation would be a massive evolutionary disadvantage...
- smcin 3y agoIsn't it going out on a limb to say that...