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But even those terms a human can only understandable from a human standpoint. I'm guessing that pleasure for a bee is nothing at all like pleasure for me, but I
by causal 2y ago
But even those terms a human can only understandable from a human standpoint. I'm guessing that pleasure for a bee is nothing at all like pleasure for me, but I cannot avoid projecting my own experience when I think about the bee's experience.
- haswell 2y agoWe descended from apes. Before we made the jump, apes presumably still felt pain and pleasure. They just didn’t have the same degree of sophistication when making sense of these sensations. Our understanding of shared traits among various animal types makes it possible to extrapolate reasonably that what these animals experience is not dissimilar to what we experience in terms of raw sensations.
- wolverine876 2y agoYou may be interested: What it's like to be a bee by Lars Chittka, professor of sensory and behavioral ecology, Queen Mary University - London https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/what-its-like-to-be-a-bee https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/what-its-like-to-be-a-bee