caa a22 4500 605448531 CHVBK 20210128100137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-014-9469-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-014-9469-4 Key Brian School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia aut Fish do not feel pain and its implications for understanding phenomenal consciousness [Elektronische Daten] [Brian Key] Phenomenal consciousness or the subjective experience of feeling sensory stimuli is fundamental to human existence. Because of the ubiquity of their subjective experiences, humans seem to readily accept the anthropomorphic extension of these mental states to other animals. Humans will typically extrapolate feelings of pain to animals if they respond physiologically and behaviourally to noxious stimuli. The alternative view that fish instead respond to noxious stimuli reflexly and with a limited behavioural repertoire is defended within the context of our current understanding of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of mental states. Consequently, a set of fundamental properties of neural tissue necessary for feeling pain or experiencing affective states in vertebrates is proposed. While mammals and birds possess the prerequisite neural architecture for phenomenal consciousness, it is concluded that fish lack these essential characteristics and hence do not feel pain. The Author(s), 2014 Fish nationallicence Pain nationallicence Phenomenal consciousness nationallicence Affective states nationallicence Avoidance learning nationallicence Neocortex nationallicence Pallium nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 149-165 0169-3867 30:2<149 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9469-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9469-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Key Brian School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 149-165 0169-3867 30:2<149 2015 30 10539