Sentience State

Context:
- It can be attained by a Sentient Agent (with a sentience ability).
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Example(s):
- an Emotional State.
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Counter-Example(s):
- [[]].
See: Feeling, Perception, Reason, Sensation (Psychology), Philosophy of Mind, Qualia, Animal Rights, Suffering, Logical Consequence.

References

(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience Retrieved:2024-7-28.
- Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Sentience is an important concept in ethics, as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve moral consideration, particularly in utilitarianism. In Asian religions, the word "sentience" has been used to translate a variety of concepts. In science fiction, the word "sentience" is sometimes used interchangeably with "sapience", "self-awareness", or "consciousness". Some writers differentiate between the mere ability to perceive sensations, such as light or pain, and the ability to perceive emotions, such as fear or grief. The subjective awareness of experiences by a conscious individual are known as qualia in Western philosophy.

(Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sentience Retrieved:2014-6-8.
- Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or to experience subjectivity. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as “qualia"). The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, which is held to entail certain rights.