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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Do insects experience pain in the same way we do?

For instance, would a bee have a similar experience to a human if their leg was torn off?
gpt
One problem with the question is that pain research often tosses "perception of potentially harmful stimuli" in the same pot as "suffering". 

Many very simple organisms have ways to perceive and react to things that might hurt them. A bee doesn't like to be squeezed and will sting in defense if it gets too bad. A simple coral will notice touch and withdraw from it. Even plants react to damage.

What they don't have is the higher capacity to think and worry about those experiences. It happens, seems to be uncomfortable, the animal tries to get out of the situation, but they don't seem to develop a lasting "fear" or often even just a strategy to avoid the same situation from happening again. 

A big part of what turns pain into suffering is the brain's ability to simulate the future. We can expect that something will hurt, we can fear it, we can imagine how bad things could get. We worry. Simple animals don't.

Context matters a lot to humans. The pain after a good workout can feel good, while the same amount of pain after an accident can have us suffering. It's very difficult to test for such processes in animals. You can check their bodies for special pain transmitting nerves, or chemical changes to damage, but that doesn't say anything about their ability to interpret the sensation beyond reflexes to move away.