DM Are consciousness and sentience synonyms? Please don't be anthropocentric in your answer(s)! No, they're not synonyms — though they're deeply entangled, and the conflation is itself a revealing symptom of the anthropocentrism you're wisely flagging. Sentience is generally the more basic, evolutionarily ancient capacity: the ability to have subjective experience  — particularly to feel, to register valence (pleasant/unpleasant), to suffer or flourish in some phenomenal sens

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