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Sentience is the capacity to experience sensations, thoughts, and feelings, and to have subjective experiences. It involves being aware of one’s surroundings, having a sense of self, and possessing the ability to perceive and respond to stimuli. Sentient beings are considered to have a level of consciousness, and their experiences are subjective and unique to them.

Wikipedia Entry: sentience

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. Some theorists define sentience exclusively as the capacity for valenced (positive or negative) mental experiences, such as pain and pleasure.

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What Is It Like to Be Something? Understanding consciousness, subjective experience, and what it feels like to be conscious

Consciousness is central to our experience of the world, yet it remains difficult to explain. The philosopher Thomas Nagel’s famous phrase, “there is something it is like to be”, can make the subject even more confusing. Understanding what he meant provides a simple starting point for exploring consciousness and subjective experience. Continue reading What Is It Like to Be Something? Understanding consciousness, subjective experience, and what it feels like to be conscious

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The Nature of Consciousness The mystery of the mind

We know that the brain processes information, responds to the world, and produces extraordinarily complex behaviour. But why should any of this activity be accompanied by subjective experience? Why should seeing red, hearing music, or feeling pain actually feel like anything? This is the mystery at the heart of consciousness, and despite considerable scientific and philosophical progress, we … Continue reading The Nature of Consciousness The mystery of the mind