ELI5- Why do bugs squirm when they are being hurt, but don’t limp when a leg is cut off? Do they feel pain? Or do they just have a protective reaction to harm that is being done to them?
In: Biology
I’m interested in this because of course “just having a protective reaction to harm that is being done to us” is the reason humans experience pain. Therefore it makes sense that all animals would utilise the evolution of ‘pain’, since that’s the driver to get us out of bad situations. Our emotions are part of an ancient part of our brain because they guide our behaviour towards survival: empathy in social animals, love, fear, pain; these aren’t complex things, they’re absolute basics.
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