I always feel a twinge of unease testing alarm systems on automated equipment. While “of course” the machine isn’t actually feeling pain when I trip a low oil s

I always feel a twinge of unease testing alarm systems on automated equipment. While “of course” the machine isn’t actually feeling pain when I trip a low oil shutdown or an over-temperature cutoff, I can’t point to any concrete qualitative difference between its aversion response to stimulus and my own.