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Are worms sentient?

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Side Score: 4
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Well, worms are alive, they breath, the move around and can feel things. They're pretty much like other animals in that sense. However, they're not like humans. I'm pretty sure I don't need to go through this considering you guys should know how they're not like humans. The definition of sentient is, "able to perceive or feel things." They can't really perceive things, at least I don't think they can, but they can feel things. They also have a working brain.

Side: Yes
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They're pretty much like other animals in that sense. However, they're not like humans.

Are you trying to imply that humans are the only sentient animal?

They also have a working brain.

Most species of worm do not have brains but some have "proto-brains"

Side: No
Gibby_Prime(37) Disputed
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Are you trying to imply that humans are the only sentient animal?

Not exactly. Animals, at last a majority of them, can feel things and are also alive, therefore they are technically sentient. The definition of sentient is "able to perceive or feel things." They are aware that they are being touched, or are touching something. But, other animals cannot perceive things like we do. They don't question their own reality, come to realizations, etc. Of course there are some intelligent animals, but I don't if they could have the ability to perceive things. Maybe some very intelligent apes could, I don't know.

Side: Yes
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I'm unaware of any scientist who's claimed that worms are sentient but what is sentient and isn't is an interesting subject. Studies on corvids (crows, ravens, bluejays, magpies and I think Jackdaws) have shown that they might be more intelligent than apes, making them the 2nd most intelligent species on the planet. Apes can use tools, but corvids can actually MAKE a tool and that's intelligence on a whole nother level.

Cormorants can count to 7.

"In the 1970s, on the Li River, Pamela Egremont observed fishermen who allowed the birds to eat every eighth fish they caught. Writing in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, she reported that, once their quota of seven fish was filled, the birds "stubbornly refuse to move again until their neck ring is loosened. They ignore an order to dive and even resist a rough push or a knock, sitting glum and motionless on their perches." Meanwhile, other birds that had not filled their quotas continued to catch fish as usual. "One is forced to conclude that these highly intelligent birds can count up to seven," she wrote."

Are they sentient? Don't know. Another contender is the octopus and it's cousin the cuttlefish.

Side: No
outlaw60(15368) Disputed
1 point

What ????????????? U believe in options of scientist !!!!!! But not in the context of the post ?????????????

Side: Yes