Why wouldn't they feel pain? It's such a superior attitude to even consider that only humans could feel pain. It's also obvious that any complex organism feels pain... It the most basic evolutionary protection mechanism. Anything that didn't feel pain would soon be evolved out.
Even the featured article puts pain in quotes and is like, “for simplicity, we’ll call it ‘pain’” So actually it’s not obvious that animals perceive the world as we do. Maybe you can only generalise our experience to warm blooded vertebrates.
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
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#42Does my computer feel pain when I decrement %eax?
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#43Hero asks the gods for gift of healing. Gods grant the gift along with pain so that we know when we are injured (and of course, in need of the gift.) No gift from the gods comes free.
I'll be sure to be more careful with my insect friends. And I'll be more vigilant in compassionate killing.
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#44Does my computer feel pain when I decrement %eax?
The computer is a part of you, and you should feel all the pain for trying to access out of bound memory
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#45Seems like there could be a mythical story or similar here. Hero asks the gods for gift of healing. Gods grant the gift along with pain so that we know when we are injured (and of course, in need of the gift.) No gift from the gods comes free. I'll be sure to be more careful with my insect friends. And I'll be more vigilant in compassionate killing.
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#46Why wouldn't they feel pain? It's such a superior attitude to even consider that only humans could feel pain. It's also obvious that any complex organism feels pain... It the most basic evolutionary protection mechanism. Anything that didn't feel pain would soon be evolved out.
I am not a biologist, but from working in labs that do research with model organisms (like drosophila) what I understood is that there is little evolutionary advantage of being able to feel pain if you cannot heal it anyway. Also if there are no nerves in some regions feeling of pain is unlikely. I remember that someone told me that experiments show that drosophila with servered legs don't change their way of walking, and do not limp as animals do that feel pain. So the notion got adopted that they cannot feel pain and experiments on them are ethically save as they do not suffer.
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#47Seems like there could be a mythical story or similar here. Hero asks the gods for gift of healing. Gods grant the gift along with pain so that we know when we are injured (and of course, in need of the gift.) No gift from the gods comes free. I'll be sure to be more careful with my insect friends. And I'll be more vigilant in compassionate killing.
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#48Seems like there could be a mythical story or similar here. Hero asks the gods for gift of healing. Gods grant the gift along with pain so that we know when we are injured (and of course, in need of the gift.) No gift from the gods comes free. I'll be sure to be more careful with my insect friends. And I'll be more vigilant in compassionate killing.
This would be a sick joke from the God, because as the article imply, they still feel the pain after healing. It's worse than we have it.
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#49Does my computer feel pain when I decrement %eax?
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#50I wonder if one could make a case for having to be more humane in insect farming? Current practices include steaming and crushing insects to death. (The Economist | Grub’s up https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/07/06/... )
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