[blueadept111]

The fine line is around whether a machine can actually experience conscious perception, such as actually feeling pain, for example. Of course, there's no way to know...

[Rury]

Pain is a signal to your brain, which causes you to react to a stimuli.

Computers react to electrical inputs, and on some level can be considered reacting to a stimuli.

Is a computer therefore conscious?

[goatlover]

Pain is an experience, not a physiological description. When you stub your toe, you feel pain, not a description of the biological mechanism.

[TaupeRanger]

No. The signal is not the pain. Pain signals are not feelings of pain. Pain happens in the mind.

[blueadept111]

Does it feel pain? I think not.