Why Do Cognitive Scientists Attribute Sentience To Animals

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• Although none of these behaviours necessarily require sentience, they are often proposed as evidence of animal sentience because of their subjective correlates in humans.claim0.798
  Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
• 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.
• How Can Cognitive Science Accommodate Beings Whose Originquestion0.778
• All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.claim0.775
  Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
• Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.771
  Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
• Cognitive functions such as sentience are always inferred.claim0.769
  First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
• all attributions of cognition (i.e., mental actions), including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.quote0.758
  Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.
• Sentience assessment should seek deep invariants across possible minds, not arbitrary criteria tied to evolution on Earthclaim0.751
  Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.