• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well, not in any way that we can relate to anyway. But that was the same with animals much earlier.

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      1 month ago

      How much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.