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@Kasz216

I would agree that without a functioning brain an organism cannot "feel pain", since there is nothing to interpret what is happening to it as such. However, brainwave patterns have been detected in foetuses as early as 10 weeks (if my memory of medical ethics classes is correct - I'm sure that could be checked). And of course the point could be made that just because such waves haven't been detected earlier doesn't mean they don't exist. Might a brain less than ten weeks old be so small that any brainwave patterns coming from it could fall under the radar, so to speak? I raise it only as a question; I don't know how valid a question it is.