Since we have a higher state of awareness as humans, might we also have more intense experiences of pain / pleasure / emotions?
Like, do we feel more pain than a fish would? More euphoria than mice could feel?
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Like, do we feel more pain than a fish would? More euphoria than mice could feel?
I think we are more capable of analyzing the emotions we feel, which probably makes them more intense.
If I'm dying, and I know I'm going too die, I will be thinking about my family and what my death might do to them. If I'm a deer, I doubt I'm thinking about all that while I'm doing. I think that adds a level of intensity to it.