In a recent article, published in Animal Sentience (the flagship journal for animal consciousness) by Bryce Huebner and myself, we argue that recent research on animal consciousness suffers from a ...
What, when, and how do nonhuman animals feel? Source: Gundula Vogel/Pixabay. In late 2015, a new journal was founded that dedicated itself to the investigation of animal sentience: that is, the ...
The likelihood that today's most sophisticated artificial intelligence programs are sentient, or conscious, is less than 10 percent, but in a decade from now, the leading AI programs might have a 20 ...
Do animals have sentience? Do they have a point of view? Can they look out at the blue sky, the flowers, and perceive the objects around them? Can they feel pleasure or pain? Many agree that mammals ...
If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch. And for good ...
Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...
Our reports are full of language that conveys uncertainty and varying degrees of confidence. Their honesty is what makes them robust and authoritative. Professor Jonathan Birch Professor Jonathan ...
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the ...
IT IS ONE of the oldest tropes in science fiction. On June 11th the Washington Post reported that an engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, had been suspended from his job for arguing that the firm’s ...
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