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love how they take 1 page defining sentience beginning with this jewel: "the capacity to have feelings". begs the question no?
by agomez314 5y ago
love how they take 1 page defining sentience beginning with this jewel: "the capacity to have feelings". begs the question no?
- dash2 5y agoThey list 8 separate empirical criteria for sentience, and evaluate them each in detail for the different species involved.
- rsiqueira 5y ago"We have developed a rigorous framework for evaluating scientific evidence of sentience based on eight criteria." 1) possession of nociceptors; 2) possession of integrative brain regions; 3) connections between nociceptors and integrative brain regions; 4) responses affected by potential local anaesthetics or analgesics; 5) motivational trade-offs that show a balancing of threat against opportunity for reward; 6) flexible self-protective behaviours in response to injury and threat; 7) associative learning that goes beyond habituation and sensitisation; 8) behaviour that shows the animal values local anaesthetics or analgesics when injured.