Sentient types

[Torsion Jim]

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.

www.quantamagazine.org

''we have much more in common with other animals than we do with things like ChatGPT''

 

[whitedog]

Surely any animal that has sensory organs is sentient, no?

 

[Torsion Jim]

The article is about consciousness

 

[whitedog]

sentient (adj)

1. Having sense perception; conscious.
2. Experiencing sensation or feeling.
3. Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
   
   So, by definition, any animal that has sensory organs is sentient...

 

[whitedog]

I guess you may need to define consciousness, then.
It just seems to go without saying to me that these creatures are conscious, as they react to sensory stimuli.

 

[Torsion Jim]

It's also obvious to me. But that doesn't stop millions, if not billions , of people having a major problem with this very idea

 

[Dj Floorclearer]

Bob hoskins had a sentient dustbin

 

[Torsion Jim]

What is Sentience?

On intellect, intentionality and altered states of consciousness.

www.feedyourhead.blog

 

[Timmy BallClamp]

Not knowing is most intimate.

 

[psychedelvic]

Say “sentience in a sentence” after few pints.