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jstream at girch1.med.uth.tmc.edu (Rifle River) writes:
> > Where is your evidence to draw this conclusion? What if
inverts have a > small > center in their gagnlia that allow for
consciously feeling unpleasant? > Just as > I can not claim that
inverts have the capacity to feel unpleasant, you can > not > argue
that they do not have the capacity to feel unpleasant. Evidence
does > not > exist that supports or refutes either statement
because it is not testable.
Yes, of course. But remember that this same type of logic will
support the contention that we can never say plants don't have the
capacity to "feel pain". Based on our human understanding of what
is required to "feel pain", a blade of grass is as likely to have
this capacity as is an inverterbrate. Remember that next time you
mow your lawn ........ ouch!
- Joe Pullara UC Berkeley Joseph_Pullara at Maillink.berkeley.edu
Did you ever think about how individual cells feel when you shave or sit
on them?
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