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Pain, philosophy of mind: the philosophical discussion deals with the peculiarities of the concept of pain in contrast to other concepts such as perceptions, sensations and stimuli. In particular, it is about the relationship between physical and mental realization of pain. See also mind body problem, physical/psychic, rigidity, possible worlds, possible world semantics, perception, introspection, private language, necessity, certainty.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Peter Singer on Pain - Dictionary of Arguments

I 51
Pain/Human/Animal/P. Singer: some will say that the pain inflicted on a pig or mouse is not as severe as the pain inflicted on a human being, because the human being is more conscious and suffers more consciously.
P. Singer: I would also say that a human cancer patient usually suffers more than an animal with the same disease. But that does not undermine the principle of equal consideration of interests.
>Interest
, >Animals, >Suffering.
I 52
If you wanted to make the aspect that people are more concerned about themselves and others a standard, you could justify experiments with mentally disadvantaged or with children, which we do not want.
Suffering: less consciousness does not have to mean less suffering: it may not be understandable for captive wild animals that they are not threatened with death. For this reason, a more precise definition of suffering cannot be essential here.
>Consciousness.
I 59
Pain/Human/Animal/P. Singer: How do we know that animals feel pain like us? Their behaviour is similar to ours and the nervous system of all vertebrates is very similar.
>Behavior.
I 60
It does not apply to plants that they feel pain. Famous experiments with lie detectors, which were applied to plants, could not be repeated. Plants do not have a centrally organized nervous system like us.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

SingerP I
Peter Singer
Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011

SingerP II
P. Singer
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015


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