There is no ground here for theories of animate sentience, no need to disturb the smooth pool of our anoesis. |
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Movement, sentience, and self-conscious thought are the basic capabilities of the human life form. |
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Surely humans have the ability to intervene in any number of moral and ethical issues purely by virtue of their sentience? |
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This is an active research area and knowledge of sentience among species continues to grow. |
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In recent years our understanding of animal sentience has progressed dramatically. |
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The scientific basis of sentience is directly linked to an ethical concern for animal welfare. |
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For me an important question is which aspect of the consciousness soul can be enhanced by Italy and its distinct sentience? |
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That is one of the processes that makes it easy to dismiss animal sentience. |
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The only support for solipsism is the fact that our own sentience is the sole thing we have direct knowledge of. |
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However, we today have no idea how to deal with sentience in physical terms. |
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The shortcomings of science must not be used to deny the existence and the ethical implications of animal sentience. |
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Now the growing appreciation of whale intelligence and sentience has added an ethical dimension to the issue. |
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There is only the balanced rhythm of sentience and emotion, upholding itself amid the changes of material nature. |
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Information on the sentience of fish has gradually accumulated over recent years. |
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We have the means to assert that the manner these branches deal with sentience can be really accepted by no one. |
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It is not a question of instituting a sort of reverse speciesism where human sentience would be discounted. |
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But as far as gaining consciousness and sentience, it is futile. |
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The spider possesses a finely tuned sentience, harmonized to the vibrations of the web of its own making, the web of its own life by which it survives or starves. |
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It implies a level of conscious awareness. The recognition of sentience in animals is a crucial bottom line in dealing with animal welfare issues. |
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Like Peter Singer, he links 'moral considerability' with 'having interests', but, unlike Singer, for Goodpaster the prerequisite for having interests is not sentience. |
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The neglect or denial of sentience would no longer be a standard feature of their works, and would come to be seen instead as a shortcoming that should be acknowledged and, sooner or later, corrected. |
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But here too the central argument is the inseparable intersubsumption of the two opposite terms: sentience is always insentience-sentience, insentience is always sentience-insentience. |
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Our sentience just cycling through our lives like carts on a track. |
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Furthermore, concerning animal sentience, it is false to say that it is a subject where people spontaneously exhibit a great variety of contrary opinions. |
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The many worlds view has several features of much interest to the problem of sentience, but by itself it does no better than classical, Laplacian physics. |
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The starting point of our knowledge and beliefs about sentience is the personal experience we have of it, i.e. the fact that we ourselves have feelings. |
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Based on a script by Jack Paglen, the film revolves around two scientists who work toward creating a machine that possesses sentience and collective intelligence. |
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