Animals' lives matter: Sentience and feelings count.
It has Sentience and is capable of communicating.
Could a sedentary organism develop intelligence, or even Sentience?
Animals as persons: Can we scale intelligence or Sentience?
Of recognizing the sacredness and the Sentience of all life, not just human life.
In so doing,
the court granted legal significance to the dog's“Sentience”- his capacity to experience feelings, and pain.
We need to consider what we know about animal Sentience when we intrude into their lives, even if it is on their behalf.
De Waal discusses facial expressions, the emotions behind human politics, the illusion of free will,
animal Sentience, and, of course, Mama's life and death.
(Science fiction writers also use the words“Sentience”,“sapience,”“self-awareness” or“ghost”-
as in the Ghost in the Shell manga and anime series- to describe this essential human property).
Humans always view themselves as creators and our quest to create Sentience in machines has been something which has been going on
since the advent of computers.
Under the Theft Act 1968, animal companions are legally
regarded as inanimate objects when stolen- their Sentience and role within the family are not taken into consideration.
In fact, the scientific evidence for animals being sentient is vast- so clear that three scientists read 2,500 papers studying Sentience in non-human animals and
concluded confidently that Sentience does indeed exist.
As we learn more about animal Sentience, which puts in question previously held dogma,
I hope we can use this knowledge to change the way we interact with, and provide for, all animals.
This is important not only because of what we now know about
the cognitive and emotional lives(consciousness and Sentience) of other animals(Bekoff 2007,
Bekoff and Pierce 2009) but also as a moral imperative for providing modern solutions for sharing space with nature and for fostering the possibility for diverse species to live in peaceful coexistenceHinchliffe et al.