Sentience (valenced consciousness)

Positively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

concept

Sentience
related_to
Central concept: the capacity to experience as a subject; core focus of the paper's argument about multiple substrates.
Consciousness (phenomenal consciousness)
extends
The state of having subjective experiences; there is something it is like to be the subject.
Welfare Subject
associated_with
An entity that has morally significant interests and can be benefited or harmed.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Sentient Beingsconcept0.811
All beings capable of suffering; the scope of care is argued to extend to all such beings regardless of substrate.
Valenceconcept0.805
The positive or negative quality of experience, identified in this paper with goal-relative prediction error
Consciousness (con-scire)concept0.790
Formulated as shareable knowledge (con: together; scire: to know); associated with inference over counterfactual models
Eight Sentience Criteria (Crump et al.)framework0.785
Quantitative, flexible framework for assessing sentience: nociception, sensory integration, analgesia, trade-offs, self-protection, learning, preference.
Consciousnessconcept0.783
Core concept: capacity to experience as a subject; argued to be substrate-independent and achievable across diverse biological systems.
Valence, the positive or negative quality of experience, just is goal-relative prediction errorclaim0.780
Core identity claim distinguishing this account from mere correlation views
Brain homology to humans as sentience criterionclaim0.779
Traditional criterion inadequate across diverse embodiments; arbitrary constraint frozen in human phylogeny.
Sentience Instituteinstitute0.771
Studies public attitudes toward AI moral status