> to create reliable consciousness tests for animals and AIs.
The term "consciousness" is too encompassing for the question of whether
bees feel pain.
I would be easy to program any computer to respond to a temperature,
pressure, or other environmental stimulus, but that response would not
indicate that the computer was distressed or suffered from "pain."
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com
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