Thoughts On Moving Toward The Acceptance of Sentience and Preference
Thursday, January 6 (2022) 11AM ‘Thoughts On Moving Toward the Acceptance of Sentience & Preference’ As I reflect upon the interconnected nature of sentience, data measurements, subjective intentions, innate instinct and fixing mistakes I head straight to the dictionary. Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘sentient’ as "being responsive to conscious of sense impression, being aware or finely sensitive in perception or feelings". There is a growing awareness and acceptance of the possibility of a deeper sentient 'beingness' among animals across a wide variet of species formerly considered as not having physical/neuron feeling of physical pain, altruism or emapthic emotion. Our notion of sentience seems to have culturally evolved out of the act of anthropomorphizing our feelings onto animals, plants, things—any non-human. However, examples of real animal-human interactions has shown behaviorally that animals do exhibit raw feelings, ...