The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” 1 In his 2024 ...

Sentience means the ability to feel. Scholars from many different disciplines are very interested in who/what is sentient and who/what isn't—what I call the biodiversity of sentience. I like to say ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) feel distress? Do lobsters suffer in a pot as it reaches a boil? Can a 12-week-old fetus feel pain? Ignore these questions and we potentially sanction a quiet, ...

Intelligence comes in many forms. Octopuses are highly intelligent—and completely unlike humans. In case you haven’t noticed, artificial intelligence systems have been behaving in increasingly ...