There's been more acceptance of cognitive ethology in the past 20 years among those interested in animal minds, including ...

In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal.

Sentience, in a broad sense, is the capacity to feel. In a narrower sense, it refers to the capacity to have feelings with a positive or negative quality, such as feelings of pain, pleasure, boredom, ...

This essay will explore some of the relationships between sentience, pain and vertebrate phylogeny. A sentient animal is one that has the ability to obtain and interpret stimuli from its internal ...

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.

Ruoff agreed with the scenario’s plausibility and highlighted the importance of robust safety measures. “That’s why AI ...

is less intelligent or has less self-awareness? This essay will explore some of the relationships between sentience, pain and vertebrate phylogeny.

Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI? These are questions about the "edge of sentience", and they are subject ...

If you aren’t yet worried about the multitude of ways you inadvertently inflict suffering onto other living creatures, you will be after reading The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch.