In consider the Lobster, Wallace develops a cause and effect argument by showing that the biological features of the lobster’s nervous system are very simple. "The nervous system of a lobster is very simple, and is in fact most similar to the nervous system of the grasshopper. It is decentralized with no brain. There is no cerebral cortex, which in humans is the area of the brain that gives the experience of pain." (Wallace 47) But it still contains the receptors needed to register pain. Wallace strengthens this point with direct observation, explaining that lobsters “will sometimes try to…