The capacity for subjective experience, or sentience, is a defining feature of consciousness. An organism is considered sentient if “there is something it is like to be that organism.” ...

Myethos announced a new Honkai Impact 3rd figure of Bronya that depicts her Herrscher of Truth form in the Dorm Chibi casual style. AmiAmi is currently taking orders for it worldwide, with it ...

Here’s how it works. In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient "I" in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience — pain ...

Without a particularly robust definition of what consciousness even is, that's still about all we can say for sure; I'm pretty sure I'm sentient, I've got no idea about you lot. But that doesn't ...

Eleos AI, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the possibilities of AI sentience — or the capacity to feel — and well-being, released a report in October in partnership with the NYU ...

One of the stranger effects of Brexit was that, after the United Kingdom left the European Union, in 2020, it no longer recognized animals as “sentient beings.” When the U.K. was an E.U ...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images The concept of personhood actually sounds more outlandish than it is, especially when corporations technically have personhood—so, why not sentient four-legged creatures?