pedanterrific comments on What is life? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 08 April 2012 01:48:34AM * 3 points [-]

Nociception has been demonstrated in insects. Small insects.

Edit: Not to mention C. elegans, which has somewhere around three hundred neurons total.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 April 2012 04:06:53PM 0 points [-]

So the Buddhists were right all along!

(FWIW, I assign a very small but non-zero ethical value to insects.)