Tag: Bee sentience

Bees in the meadow and apiary. Selective focus.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 28, 2024

Categorized
Animal mind, Panpsychism

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A Darwinian Biologist Winces at Bees That Have Feelings

_{The problem Jerry Coyne has with Lars Chittka’s evidence for emotions among bees points to a growing conflict between naturalism and panpsychism in science} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 28, 2024

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Animal mind, Panpsychism}

For a naturalist, the problem with accepting consciousness as real is that it is also immaterial, even in an animal like a dog that has a minimal self. Read More ›

Macro of a bumblebee collecting nectar on flower

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 5, 2022

Categorized
Ethics, Natural Intelligence

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Bee sentience, Eric Cassell, Insect sentience}

Bees Feel Pain. And Therefore… Insect Rights?

_{As we learn more from research about how various life forms respond to experiences, a more complex picture may raise political issues} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 5, 2022

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Ethics, Natural Intelligence}

From an online newsletter from Vox writer Kenny Torrella, we learn of a research study confirming that bumblebees feel pain: In a study published last week in the journal PNAS, researchers in the United Kingdom found that bees make trade-offs about how much pain they’re willing to tolerate in order to get better food. The finding suggests bees aren’t just mindless automata responding to stimuli but rather conscious, feeling creatures that can experience pain and engage in complex decision-making. Kenny Torrella, “Can a bee feel,” Vox (August 5, 2022) The paper is open access. Essentially, the researchers offered bumblebees sugar water in color-cued unheated containers, at solutions of 10%, 20%, 30%, or 40%. Then they introduced a catch: They heated Read More ›