Sentience
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| [[Image:Diagram of the human mind, from Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica]]'' by [[Robert Fludd]]]] | [[Image:Diagram of the human mind, from Robert Fludd (1574-1637), Utriusque cosmic maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica]]'' by [[Robert Fludd]]]] | ||
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| - | '''Sentience''' refers to utilization of sensory organs, the ability to feel or perceive subjectively, not necessarily including the faculty of [[self-awareness]]. The possession of [[sapience]] is not a necessity. The word ''sentient'' is often confused with the word ''[[sapience|sapient]]'', which can connote [[knowledge]], consciousness, or [[apperception]]. The root of the confusion is that the word ''conscious'' has a number of different usages in [[English language|English]]. The two words can be distinguished by looking at their [[Latin]] [[root (linguistics)|roots]]: ''sentire'', "to feel"; and ''sapere'', "to know". | ||
| - | Sentience is the ability to sense. It is separate from, and not dependent on, aspects of consciousness. | + | '''Sentience''' is the ability to [[feeling|feel]], [[perception|perceive]], or to experience subjectivity. Eighteenth century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (''[[reason]]'') from the ability to feel (''sentience''). In modern western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience [[sensation (psychology)|sensations]] (known in [[philosophy of mind]] as "[[qualia]]"). For Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of [[animal rights]], because sentience is necessary for the ability to [[suffering|suffer]], which is held to [[logical consequence|entail]] certain rights. |
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| + | ==Etymology== | ||
| + | From Proto-Italic ''*sentjō'', from Proto-Indo-European ''*sent-'' (“to feel”). Cognate with Lithuanian ''sintėti'' (“to think”), Old High German ''sinnan'' (“to go; desire”). | ||
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Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or to experience subjectivity. Eighteenth century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as "qualia"). For Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, which is held to entail certain rights.
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sentjō, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). Cognate with Lithuanian sintėti (“to think”), Old High German sinnan (“to go; desire”).
See also
- Blindsight
- Causality
- Consciousness
- Explanatory gap
- Hard problem of consciousness
- List of films about possessed or sentient inanimate objects
- Mind
- Mind-body problem
- Mirror test
- Pain in invertebrates
- Philosophical zombie
- Philosophy of mind
- Problem of other minds
- Solipsism
- Turing test
