"How not to move the line drawn on pain" by Bjorn H. Merker

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Citation

Merker, Bjorn H. (2016) How not to move the line drawn on pain. Animal Sentience 3(40)

Author Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björn_Merker

Commentary Type

Open Commentary

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Brian Key, Why fish do not feel pain

Abstract

In this second commentary I outline the inadequacy of Key's responses to the many peer critiques of his thesis that have so far appeared in Animal Sentience. I illustrate with examples drawn from his response to my first commentary.

Author Biography

Bjorn Merker gyr694c@tninet.se is a neuroscientist with longstanding interest in brain mechanisms of consciousness: He has worked on subcortical mechanisms of orienting behavior in rodents and cats, mirror self-recognition in gibbons, and structural principles intrinsic to the neural organization of a conscious state. Fjälkestadsv. 410-82, SE-29194 Kristianstad, Sweden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björn_Merker

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1073

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