(September 24, 2022 at 7:41 am)Duty Wrote: Or pleasure or...well, anything really?
One for the ghost of Descartes probably but I'd say no - they feel nothing. Thoughts?
We don't know what pain really means, in a universal sense. Certainly, for a person, you'd expect that unconsciousness would mean a lack of suffering as well.
But it seems to me that any living thing that is capable of motivated behavior (like trying to survive or to reproduce) must suffer on some level when the goals of those motivations are thwarted.
