[freeflight]

>Yeah, I just have to worry about higher beings justifying the termination of my primitive nervous system "for science".

They might as well just terminate your primitive nervous system for their own nutritional needs or out of mere hunting instinct. Plenty of animals do this all the time, nature isn't romantic idealistic, it's ruthless and unforgiving.

[Godel_unicode]

Or alternatively, beautifully efficient.

[kwhitefoot]

Efficient at what? Efficiency is always relative to a particular goal, what did you have in mind?

[greggyb]

Propagation of a species.

[mirimir]

Eating other species does have selective advantages.