Posted: Mar 24, 2010 7:42 pm
Nora_Leonard wrote:CdeLosada wrote:
I don't know whether insects feel pain, but if they don't it's not because they are not conscious beings but because the mechanism that makes them react to dangerous stimuli does not rely on pain to be triggered.
Very well put and thought provoking. For some reason it made me think that different organisms could experience different levels of consciousness as well as intermittent consciousness. So why couldn't insects have, at times, flashes of consciousness when required?
Thanks, although your comment made see that I didn’t put it so well after all… I didn’t mean to say that insects are conscious. I don’t think they are. I should have written: If insects don’t feel pain it’s not because of the fact that they are not conscious beings, but because the mechanism… etc.
You posit an interesting idea, though.