The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has revived long-standing debates about whether machines could one day possess consciousness similar to humans. However, beyond the technical ...

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 ...

As will become apparent from the following discussion the debate over animal sentience has, like a growing number of present-day issues, become rather polarized. A case in point was the recent annual ...

Sentience in nonhuman animals (animals) is a "hot" topic receiving attention from a wide range of researchers with different interests and agendas. For the purpose of this essay and as I've done ...

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 ...