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Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain?
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RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain?
September 24, 2022 at 8:14 am (This post was last modified: September 24, 2022 at 8:15 am by Jehanne.)
(September 24, 2022 at 7:59 am)Belacqua Wrote: On the one hand, they must feel things in the sense that they react to their environment. 

On the other, they probably don't have concepts. So when they react to their environment, they just react, and there's no part of them conceptualizing "Geez, I'm scared; gotta get out of here." 

It would be like the twitching of the severed legs of dead frogs (or, any other mammal, for that matter.)
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Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain?

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Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Duty - September 24, 2022 at 7:41 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Belacqua - September 24, 2022 at 7:59 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Jehanne - September 24, 2022 at 8:14 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Angrboda - September 24, 2022 at 9:30 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Jehanne - September 24, 2022 at 10:19 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by bennyboy - September 24, 2022 at 8:27 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Jehanne - September 24, 2022 at 9:08 am
RE: Jellyfish have no brain - can they feel pain? - by Jehanne - September 24, 2022 at 11:04 am

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