Sentience is hot these days. | Pete Gamlen for Vox
Sentience is hot these days. Partly because of the development of impressive new AI systems, everyone seems to be asking: How do we know if something is sentient?
While consciousness means simply having a subjective point of view on the world — a feeling of what it’s like to be you — sentience is the capacity to have conscious experiences that are valenced, meaning they feel bad (pain) or good (pleasure). It matters for ethics, because a lot of people think that if an entity is sentient, it deserves to be in our moral circle: the im...
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