April 1, 2024

OPEN DISCUSSION APRIL 2024 Moderator Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

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Did we really discover pain in insects? Maybe… but we can’t be sure they feel it like we do Georgy Kurakin The Skeptic

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Every time you burn your fingers with a hot teapot, your spinal cord rapidly withdraws your hand before you can understand what was the matter – and before you experience an emotionally loaded, unpleasant sense of tissue damage that you call pain. This example of a simple reflex illustrates a usually omitted fact: nociception, which

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