| 词汇 | example_english_sentience |
| 释义 | Examples of sentienceThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. For today's student, an ingrained understanding of the sentience of nonhuman animals will lead to a better scientist tomorrow. Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status. I will begin by describing some clichés and assumptions that must be overcome to reach openmindedness about the sentience of nonhuman animals. This illuminates the ever more complex and dynamic interplay between biology, culture, sentience, and historical and social contexts. As morality revolves around rational agency rather than sentience, happiness is not considered morally good. Equal sentience being the only 'sure thing', it may only serve to justify such a postulation. A review of the literature does suggest, however, that there is no serious possibility of sentience emerging until a relatively advanced stage of the pregnancy. It was the first element of sentience in perception. Most animals, he notes, have capacities for mobility, perception and sentience that are essential to their kind. The ability to acquire information implies sentience on the part of the acquirer, which again makes it more likely to be human. In some of these philosophical accounts, sentience, or awareness and the ability to experience, is required to generate independent moral status. It won't be effective with those people who believe that they continue to exist as long as their brain realizes even minimal sentience. Early human embryos are not a scarce resource, are not examples of an endangered species, and, lacking sentience, have no intrinsic moral value. Some have suggested sentience as an alternative criterion or incipient neurological activity as a feasible indicator of personhood. This interest is clearly a moral interest: music announces sentience, movement, passion, life. Of course, there are many quality of life issues concerning nonhuman animals that extend beyond the concept of sentience. Sentience or perception may be relevant to identifying agents as experiencers whereas causation may be most relevant to identifying agents as actors. Sentience justifies the mere inclusion of every animate being in the calculation of general happiness. Curiously, however, no version of the design argument has ever proposed fitness for animal life or fitness for sentience as the felicitous feature of the universe. This thesis may be disputed; nevertheless, considering sentience as an insufficient condition for moral standing may be a result of shortsightedness, which is the theme of the present essay. It underscores that musicians are composers, performers or listeners whose engagement is revealed through an attunement to the world and manifested through sentience, movement, spaciality and creative emergence. An appreciation of their sentience will follow. It is usually assumed that an interest in avoiding physical pain accompanies the onset of sentience (the ability to experience that pain) and predates any other interest. In the dove's case, such value might derive from its sentience; in the case of the early human embryo such value seems to have two possible sources. Although viability may, in fact, confer personhood, there is no logical reason not to push it forward to actual birth rather than backward to sentience or brain birth. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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