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Sifting Truth From Hearsay

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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The Paradox of Pain

Darwinian account of pain would actually give you a rather paradoxical result. We're up to think that because we have big brains and we have um bit conscious with highly developed consciousness therefore we're capable of feeling more pain than other animals, says Peter singer. Pain is the nervous system's warning don't repeat what you just did because it's dangerous it's likely to make you die next time it happens.

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