The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...
With the sentience of vertebrates now enshrined in UK and EU law, is it time we rethought our relationship with fish? If you’ve ever had a pet, visited a zoo or watched wild animals at play, it’s ...
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? —Jeremy Bentham, 1789 Source: Philip Tedeschi, with permission. It’s time to stop wondering if nonhuman animals (animals ...
After a chimpanzee named Flint recently lost his mother, renowned primatologist Dr Jane Goodall wrote: the last short journey he made, pausing to rest every few feet, was to the very place where Flo’s ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to become sentient anywhere from never to sometime in the next decade or two. If robots do become sentient, how would we know? Are we disincentivized to ...
Can artificial intelligence (AI) feel distress? Do lobsters suffer in a pot as it reaches a boil? Can a 12-week-old fetus feel pain? Ignore these questions and we potentially sanction a quiet, ...
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