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Do lobsters experience pain?

I was watching a cooking show where the ingredients included live lobsters, and the contestants started ripping them apart and boiling/cooking them alive and i couldn't help but wonder if its aware and feeling whats happening to it. :'(
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They do experience pain, but the mechanism of action is considerably different from ours. Lobsters do have a sense of touch, but lack the outline of sensory nerves we do. They have been shown to display a reflex response to certain stimuli, like how when someone is pinched they'll move away from the stimulus. However, considering the vast difference in nervous system development (including the brain), it is plausible that the perception of pain and suffering isn't nearly as intense or daunting due to the enormous difference in brain development. However again, it's been shown that crustaceans display a memory of painful events in their behavior and can be conditioned to a degree. Really the answer is, we do know they have reflexes for stimuli, and they have a sense of touch, what we don't know is if the implications of pain and agony are perceived the same, especially with the huge rift in condition. It's best to just tell people they do experience pain though, because in the case that they do experience it similar, we cause them as little pain as possible, or none at all.