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Philosophy Compass, 2022 Abstract ‘Sentience’ sometimes refers to the capacity for any type of subjective experience, and sometimes to the capacity to have subjective experiences with a positive or negative valence, such as pain or pleasure. We review recent controversies regarding sentience in fish and invertebrates and consider the deep methodological ...
Heather Browning, Jonathan Birch
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Neurobiological emergentism: sentience as an emergent process and the experiential gap [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyOne of the most controversial and debated problems regarding the nature of sentience, is how to integrate the biology and neurobiology of sentience with the problem of the “explanatory gaps” that are proposed to arise between the functions of the nervous
Todd E. Feinberg
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A Kettle of Fish: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Fish Sentience
Animals, 2022 Fish are traded, caught, farmed, and killed in their trillions every year around the world, yet their welfare is often neglected and their sentience regularly disregarded. In this review, we have sought to (1) catalogue the extent to which fish sentience
Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin
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Horses are worthy of care: Horse sector participants’ attitudes towards animal sentience, welfare, and well-being [PDF]
Animal WelfareOrganisations for which sentient animals are central to the business model need to demonstrate the safeguarding of animal welfare and well-being. This requires providing positive experiences for animals which is critical to maintaining the social licence
Julie M Fiedler +3 more
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Searching for Animal Sentience: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature
Animals, 2013 Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfare movement. In this review, we examined what is being explored and discussed, regarding animal sentience, within the scientific literature.
Helen S Proctor, Amelia Cornish
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Animal Sentience: Where Are We and Where Are We Heading?
Animals, 2012 The science of animal sentience underpins the entire animal welfare movement. Demonstrating objectively what animals are capable of is key to achieving a positive change in attitudes and actions towards animals, and a real, sustainable difference for ...
Helen S Proctor
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Animals, 2020 The concept of sentience, how it is characterised and which non-human animals possess it have long been of contention in academic and intellectual debates. Many have argued that there is no way to empirically know that animals have conscious experiences.
Mark James Learmonth
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Given the Cold Shoulder: A Review of the Scientific Literature for Evidence of Reptile Sentience
Animals, 2019 We searched a selection of the scientific literature to document evidence for, and explorations into reptile sentience. The intention of this review was to highlight; (1) to what extent reptile capability for emotions have been documented in the ...
Helen Lambert
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Epistemological implications of astroglia scientific research [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular NeuroscienceNeuroglia, comprising three cell types (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and microglia), interact with neurons and extracellular components in brain physiology.
Alfredo Pereira +2 more
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Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View
Systems, 2022 Living systems are complex dynamic information processing energy consuming entities with properties of consciousness, intelligence, sapience, and sentience. Sapience and sentience are autonomous attributes of consciousness.
Maurice Yolles
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