What Can Octopuses Teach Us About Pain and Consciousness?

What Can Octopuses Teach Us About Pain and Consciousness?

What would it be like if your arm had a mind of its own? Even stranger, if you had eight arms so ‘suffused with nervousness’ that they wander, explore and feel with their own goals, acting as ‘agents of their own’. This is the model offered for being an octopus in...
Most pain is not a tissue issue

Most pain is not a tissue issue

Here’s a big question for you: if you have pain in your big toe, is your pain in your big toe? Or is your pain inside of you?  We used to always think that the pain was in the big toe. That the issue was in the tissues. And that’s useful to some extent –...