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I wonder if they can feel something akin to pain. It'd probably be excruciatingly painful to be able to feel your body dissolving, at least until the related ne

• rybosworld 3y ago
  Not in the way we experience it - their nervous systems are much simpler than a mammals. The experience of pain is thought to be related to how complex the brain/nervous system of the animal is. Many animals will respond to being poked/prodded but the response is more of an involuntary reflex than anything else - this is called nociception. There's no conscience "experience" here. Mammals also experience nociception, but the associated "anguish" is not believed to be prevalent in most animals. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790384/ Basically: The mammalian experience of pain is thought to be somewhat unique. There's always exceptions of course (Octopus are thought to have complex pain experience).