Whether insects (Insecta) have the subjective experience of pain is difficult to answer.
Recent work in humans demonstrated that the experience of pain occurs due to the …

Highlights•Neural/behavioural indicators of emotional components of pain in insects are
unknown.•I review four lines of evidence for pain experience in insects.•Robots show more …

This paper briefly considers the broad social and scientific background to research into the
possibility of insects experiencing pain sensations analogous to our own. There has been …

The entomology literature has historically suggested insects cannot feel pain, leading to
their exclusion from ethical debates and animal welfare legislation. However, there may be …

In certain situations, insects appear to lack a response to noxious stimuli that would cause
pain in humans. For example, from the fact that male mantids continue to mate while being …

Modulation of nociception allows animals to optimize chances of survival by adapting their
behaviour in different contexts. In mammals, this is executed by neurons from the brain and …

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In this paper we1 assess the potential for research on nonhuman animals to address
questions about the phenomenology of painful experiences. Nociception, the basic capacity …

Whether insects have the potential for subjective experiences depends on the definition of
subjective experience. The definition used by Klein & Barron (2016) is an unusually liberal …

How subjective experience is realized in nervous systems remains one of the great
challenges in the natural sciences. An answer to this question should resolve debate about …