Ed Yong
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354 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Sep
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Yeah, I think it's a really, really tough question.
You know, pain is unusual in that it's like the unwanted sense, right?
It's the thing that we definitely don't want to feel.
That's right.
That's more of a kind of emotional pain than the more sensory pain that I'm talking about.
But sure, I agree.
Now I'm thinking about that movie.
Real bad.
i'm reliving the pain now why okay um much of the discussion around animal pain has um has revolved around a very very simple question which is can this group of animals feel it yes or no um there have been uh you know there was a time when some people believe that no other animals besides humans could feel pain and then that that uh that
ability was extended to things that are very similar to us, other mammals, birds, maybe.
And then there were a lot of these edge cases, right?
So there's been for a long time this idea that fish don't feel pain.
I think that that has been refuted by a number of very good studies showing that they very much do.
But here's the thing.
I think that there are probably many different kinds of ways of feeling and experiencing pain.
So we might look to the cephalopods, so octopuses and squid, which are very distant from us, clearly very intelligent animals.
Do they have the ability to feel pain?
So if you damage the arm of a squid, like if you just cut off the tip of an arm, this is something that happens very often in nature, the animal does react as if it's in pain, as some of the indicators.
But crucially, it doesn't seem to behave as if... It doesn't seem to act as if this arm has been injured, right?
The whole body...
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