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Do earthworms feel pain

Updated: 12/11/2022
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Pain perception can be conceptualized in 2 ways. First, you have pain perception at the punitive level, or the capacity to react to noxious stimuli - this ispreciselywhat earth worms have. The brains of earth worms have not evolved to the point where they have the higher braincentresrequired for encoding painful stimuli. On the other hand, there is pain perception at the cognitive level. Here, the organism which is exposed to trauma or noxious stimuli indeed have the appropriate functioning structures required for encoding and processing painful stimuli.

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