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Do Honeybees Feel? Scientists Are Entertaining the Idea


Bees find nectar and tell their hive-mates; flies evade the swatter; and cockroaches seem to do whatever they like wherever they like. But who would believe that insects are conscious, that they are aware of what’s going on, not just little biobots?

Neuroscientists and philosophers apparently. As scientists lean increasingly toward recognizing that nonhuman animals are conscious in one way or another, the question becomes: Where does consciousness end?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/science/honeybees-insects-consciousness-brains.html

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I wonder if together the bees form a hive mind. 

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