Philosophy and Theoretical Science
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We discuss some of the many valuable insights into affective sentience from Birch’s The Edge of Sentience, such as its eight criteria for determining which entities have sentience (e.g., emotions) and its insights into the difficulty of testing whether an Artificial Intelligence system has attained sentience. We add our own perspectives on why the eight criteria are valid, on the difficulty of using behavioral trade-offs to determine whether an animal has sentience, and why evolutionary theory says consciousness is not an epiphenomenon.
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@article{Mallatt2026Multiple,
title = {Multiple insights into affective sentience},
author = {Jon Mallatt and Todd E. Feinberg},
journal = {Animal Sentience},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.51291/2377-7478.1961},
url = {https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1961}
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