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  2. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience , awareness , subjectivity , qualia , the ability to experience or to feel , wakefulness , having a sense ...

  3. Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness ... - AOL

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    Scientists’ changing understanding of animal sentience could have implications for U.S. law, which does not classify animals as sentient on a federal level, according to Reddy.

  4. Sentience - Wikipedia

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    Determining which animals can experience sensations is challenging, but scientists generally agree that vertebrates, as well as many invertebrate species, are likely sentient. [1] [2] Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. [3]

  5. Plans must be made for the welfare of sentient AI, animal ...

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    Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan for those systems’ welfare, a new study argues.

  6. Elephant cognition - Wikipedia

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    Although many animals respond to a mirror, very few show any evidence that they recognize it is in fact themselves in the mirror reflection. The Asian elephants in the study also displayed this type of behavior when standing in front of a 2.5-by-2.5-metre (8.2 ft × 8.2 ft) mirror – they inspected the mirror and brought food close to the ...

  7. Pain in crustaceans - Wikipedia

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    Based on this evidence, they placed all decapod crustaceans into the same category of research-animal protection as vertebrates. In 2021, following a review, [ 83 ] the United Kingdom officially recognized decapod crustaceans and cephalopods as sentient beings capable of experiencing pain.

  8. Intrinsic value in animal ethics - Wikipedia

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    The intrinsic value of a human or any other sentient animal comes from within itself. It is the value it places on its own existence. Intrinsic value exists wherever there are beings that value themselves. [1] Intrinsic value is considered self-ascribed, all animals have it, unlike instrumental or extrinsic values.

  9. Mirror test - Wikipedia

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    The hamadryas baboon is one primate species that fails the mirror test.. The mirror test—sometimes called the mark test, mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, red spot technique, or rouge test—is a behavioral technique developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. as an attempt to determine whether an animal possesses the ability of visual self-recognition. [1]