Animal Sentience

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• Sentienceconcept0.849
  Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
• Sentient Beingsconcept0.815
  All beings capable of suffering; the scope of care is argued to extend to all such beings regardless of substrate.
• That animal sentience is inferred on the basis of some likeness to humans is ultimately an intuition.claim0.796
  Claim that the basis for inferring animal sentience is intuitive, not empirical.
• inference of sentienceconcept0.794
  Attributing subjective experience based on observable embodied behaviours.
• How Can We Identify And Evaluate The Sentiencequestion0.787
• Although none of these behaviours necessarily require sentience, they are often proposed as evidence of animal sentience because of their subjective correlates in humans.claim0.783
  Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
• Sentience (valenced consciousness)concept0.771
  Positively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.
• Sapienceconcept0.770
  The ability of a self to construct and evaluate models, grasp relationships, and revise representations; operates through the intellect via symbolic reasoning