Well we have sentience, so it would be consistent if I accepted the sentience criteria and also answered "no" to this question. Maybe the issue is the concept o

Well we have sentience, so it would be consistent if I accepted the sentience criteria and also answered "no" to this question. Maybe the issue is the concept of sentience is poorly defined. I think of it as synonymous with "having qualia", i.e., having subjective experiences. Yours is my go-to thought experiment for why some arbitrary intelligence bar doesn't give us lease to eat animals. That and the even more obvious, can I eat really dumb people?