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11: Guest Steve Rathje, Insect Consciousness, and Theatre Science

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The Unconscious Voter's Perspective on Memory

Caroline: I can't imagine something moving around and making all of doing all of this stuff not having some level of consciousness. Ella: For some reason I just don't see memory as like being super linked to consciousness so for some reason I kind of see them as separate things. Carolyn: Having pain receptors or whatever doesn't necessarily mean that you have like the subjective experience of pain so like yeah I kind of think it does I would say would. Carole: You're right, we debate if insects can actually experience that or if they can if they're just like responding to something that harms them but again that's also not great indicator of if they have any sort of conscious experience

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