I don’t find the case against bivalve sentience that strong, especially for the number of animals potentially involved and the diversity of the 10k bivalve species. (For example, scallops are motile and have hundreds of image-forming eyes—it’d be surprising to me if pain wasn’t useful to such a lifestyle!)
I don’t find the case against bivalve sentience that strong, especially for the number of animals potentially involved and the diversity of the 10k bivalve species. (For example, scallops are motile and have hundreds of image-forming eyes—it’d be surprising to me if pain wasn’t useful to such a lifestyle!)