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Through a Scanner Darkly: Machine Sentience and the Language Virus

Journal of Social Computing, 2023
Discussions of the detection of artificial sentience tend to assume that our goal is to determine when, in a process of increasing complexity, a machine system “becomes” sentient.
Maurice Bokanga, Alessandra Lembo, John Levi Martin   +2 more
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Sentience, Harmony and the Value of Nature

Animals, 2022
Concern for nature and for animal sentience are important public and political moral concerns. Using frameworks such as Harmony for Nature and One Health and the recent IPBES report on the Diverse Values of Nature, this paper considers how the two issues
James William Yeates
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AIdeal: Sentience and Ideology

Journal of Social Computing, 2023
This paper addresses a set of ideological tensions involving the classification of agential kinds, which I see as the methodological and conceptual core of the sentience discourse.
Daniel Estrada
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Review: Sentientism – for whose sake? Ethics, sciences, and crypto-teleological fact-value bridges, illustrated by the research about sentience in invertebrates

Animal, 2023
Sentientism is the most influential position in animal ethics. It presents sentience as decisive for integrating animals in ethics. Nevertheless, its significance for animal ethical argumentation is not quite clear.
H. Baranzke, H.W. Ingensiep
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What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Red Herrings, Fish Pain and the Study of Animal Sentience

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Debates around fishes' ability to feel pain concern sentience: do reactions to tissue damage indicate evaluative consciousness (conscious affect), or mere nociception? Thanks to Braithwaite's research leadership, and concerns that current practices could
G. J. Mason, J. M. Lavery
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The Search for Invertebrate Consciousness [PDF]

, 2020
There is no agreement on whether any invertebrates are conscious and no agreement on a methodology that could settle the issue. How can the debate move forward?
Birch, Jonathan
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Perceptions of Farm Animal Sentience and Suffering: Evidence from the BRIC Countries and the United States

Animals, 2022
In this study, we examined how beliefs about farm animal sentience and their suffering vary across culture and demographic characteristics. A total of N = 5027) questionnaires were administered in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the USA.
Fernando Mata, Bastian Jaeger, Ivo Domingues   +2 more
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Welfare-aligned Sentience: Enhanced Capacities to Experience, Interact, Anticipate, Choose and Survive

Animals, 2019
The focus of this opinion is on the key features of sentience in animals which can experience different states of welfare, encapsulated by the new term ‘welfare-aligned sentience’. This term is intended to exclude potential forms of sentience that do not
David J. Mellor
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Foxes, hounds, and horses : Who or which? [PDF]

, 2006
Writers of English can choose whether to mark a high level of sentience in a nonhuman animal by selecting the word who rather than which. An examination of texts relating to foxhunting on the world wide web showed that, in reference to the nonhuman ...
Gupta, A.F.
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The Mental Lives of Sheep and the Quest for a Psychological Taxonomy [PDF]

, 2019
In this commentary on Marino and Merskin's "Intelligence, complexity, and individuality in sheep", I argue that their literature review provides further evidence of the fundamental theoretical shift in psychology towards a non-anthropocentric ...
Figdor, Carrie
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