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Question of the Week / Re: QotW - 18.02.04 - Do lobsters experience pain?
« on: 09/02/2018 14:20:00 »
In Henry Marsh's 'Admissions' he says "Nobody knows at what point pain arises in nervous systems. If you deliver a painful stimulus to a lobster's claw, it will rub the painful area with the other claw"
That would mean a lobster could pass the test used by doctors to assess the depth of a coma- if a patient, when receiving a painful stimulus, puts their hand to the painful area, it is assumed that there is conscious perception of pain. I guess we could therefore say that lobsters consciously perceive pain.
That would mean a lobster could pass the test used by doctors to assess the depth of a coma- if a patient, when receiving a painful stimulus, puts their hand to the painful area, it is assumed that there is conscious perception of pain. I guess we could therefore say that lobsters consciously perceive pain.