They probably are concious in some form but their pain might be so much simpler than ours as their conciousness is.
They lack a lot of hardware to expeirience what we expeirience.
The risk of using a word like 'pain' is because it's a very sharply defined word for most people. While in fact expeiriencing pain evolved and your pain might be very different than fish pain or insect pain or nematode pain.
They probably are concious in some form but their pain might be so much simpler than ours as their conciousness is.
They lack a lot of hardware to expeirience what we expeirience.
The risk of using a word like 'pain' is because it's a very sharply defined word for most people. While in fact expeiriencing pain evolved and your pain might be very different than fish pain or insect pain or nematode pain.