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