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Sentience vs sapience3/11/2023 ![]() ![]() (11) However, since sentience is a characteristic of other animals as well as man, logically the ethics applied to mankind must be extended to encompass all animals.(10) Finally, it is argued that, since the capacities for sentience, a minimal condition for personhood, are never realized by an anencephalic, the entity has never been alive as a person.(9) If, however, the universe is actually the product of a rational Mind and evolution is simply the search engine that in leading to sentience and consciousness allows us to discover the fundamental architecture of the universe – a point many mathematicians intuitively sense when they speak of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics – then things not only start to make much better sense, but they are also much more interesting.(8) We already interact with things that have only the semblance of sentience. ![]() (7) Our thinking about sentience is not advanced a great deal, as we as yet have no good way of talking about it at the brainstem level.(6) He sees no solid basis for grounding the scope of moral obligations on simple sentience, membership in the human species, or technical differentia such as viability, and concludes that medical ethics still suffers from the lack of an adequate theory on which to base a right to life.(5) Very tentative observations are made concerning the implications of neuromaturational events for the development of fetal sentience and fetal pain.(4) He listed (1) a self-agency, representing the recognition of one's volition and capacity to act (2) a sense of self-coherence, representing a sentience of what remains constant within one's own purveyance (3) a sense of self-affectivity, representing the recognition of feelings, that is, the subjective aspect of affective living and (4) a sense of self-history, representing a registration of continuity and a recognition of what "goes on being.".(3) The correlates were measured by Perceived Field Motion, Human Field Rhythms, Creativity, Sentience, Fast Tempo, and Waking Periods.(2) At this point, I merely refer you to Mary Anne Warren's chapter on Abortion and Human Rights in Moral Status: Obligations to Persons and Other Living Things, wherein she clearly explains the biological and moral justifications to not grant sentience, and therefore equal moral status, to first- and early second-trimester foetuses. ![]()
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