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Drawing the line on pain
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The structure of Key's (2016) argument that fish do not feel pain is flawed, betraying a fundamental lack of understanding of the nature of feelings and their role in the brain's functional division of labor. The evidence Key marshals in support of his premature commitment to an exclusively corticocentric view of consciousness in humans is plagued by repeated failures of scholarship.
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“Whereas some biologists infer that animals like fish do not suffer pain because they do not have a mammalian-like neo-cortical representation of nociceptive stimuli (Rose, 2002; Key, 2016), like Merker (2016) and many other biologists, we argue that sentience does not require a mammalian neo-cortical organization.”
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“A detailed survey of evidence from neurosurgery and clinical studies, comparative neurology, experimental psychology, neurophysiology, and functional neuroanatomy concluded that this assumption regarding consciousness is not a safe one (Merker 2007).”
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“…of the degree to which the “sensory world” of a given taxon has been augmented with an elaborate system for veridically reconstructing the sources of sensory afference based on prior learning — the basic function of neocortex in mammals and of telencephalic elaboration in birds (Merker 2012).”
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The Transition to Minimal Consciousness through the Evolution of Associative Learning
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- Merker, B.
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- Animal Sentience
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- WellBeing International Publications
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- 2016-01-01
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