sentient
The growing appreciation of whale intelligence and sentience has added an ethical dimension to the issue of whaling.
This thought experiment seeks to determine the moment of sentience of an artificial being.
If you are asking if there is more sentience in a whale than a chicken, I'm not qualified to answer that.

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Examples of sentience

sentience
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.
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