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Sharlin
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Pig brains partially revived four hours after deat...
We don’t know what a brain disconnected from all sensory inputs feels. It could be agonizing pain for all that we know.
dpatrick86
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It sure seems like patterns of cortical activation (or something like that) could be compared to some sort of waking standard to take a very good measured guess at some point.
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procgen
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Is the implication that pigs don’t experience pain, or that we shouldn’t care?
joombaga
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Pigs have the ability to feel pain. Many people believe we should minimize the undue suffering of sentient organisms.
SequoiaHope
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Some people care about the suffering of animals.
nck_p
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and that makes it ok?
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