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I looked up the definition of sentience and "the ability to feel" is not what came up.
Merriam Webster: Sentience: feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and THOUGHT. Thought: the action or process of THINKING Thinking: the action of using your mind to produce ideas, decisions, memories, etc.
Dictionary.com: Sentience: having the power of perception by the senses; CONSCIOUSNESS. Consciousness: awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
The scientifically respected turing test compared to this article about sentience conflict greatly.
There is not only a bias in the article leaning toward an animal rights agenda, but there are far too many lines fixated on that agenda instead of substantial scientific fact and theory.
I recommend a complete re-write of this article that is fixated on the science of sentience, not the opinions of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.107.211 ( talk) 16:37, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
feel
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).perception
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).not think
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).consciousness
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).The very first sentence of this article ("Sentience is the capacity to interpret feelings and sensations into self-awareness.") is unsupported by its own citation, which references the dictionary definition of the word. That definition contains no mention at all about self-awareness, much less the capacity to interpret feelings and sensations into it. It puzzles me that Wikipedia would feel free to redefine a word in a significant way like this, and then use a footnote to a source that doesn't at all support that statement. This misleads the casual reader into accepting a definition that goes significantly beyond the actual definition of the word. 184.99.176.147 ( talk) 18:13, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
"The term "sentience" is not used by major artificial intelligence textbooks and researchers."
the claim that AI research, for reasons unknown, would stubbornly refuse to discuss sentience (in any way) strikes me as preposterous. even the citation only provides evidence that four by now dated textbooks (supposedly) do not use the term. k kisses 17:14, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Doing a "find on page" search using Microsoft Edge, the word "insect" didn't come up. Maybe somebody can think this issue through and write a brief section on it. Me, I'm too busy with other things. Personally, I believe that insects are aware of their existence. Although many people would disagree. They have eyes and are able to see things. And they react like humans when threatened, planning strategies of escape and so on. They seem to react with pain if injured. 2600:8801:B011:300:10B7:8F72:424E:883 ( talk) 13:50, 13 May 2021 (UTC) James.
this article is very handwavy about sapience. strange, given there is a section on it. there is a link near the top, in the 'science fiction' section, and then i don't know what. i think a sentence or paragraph describing the differences would help me understand 24.132.57.190 ( talk) 19:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
The paragraph " Empirical data on conditioned reflex precision" seems only remotely connected to the topic of sentience. In particular the first sentence: the fact that dogs begin salivating at a larger frequency range in the context of Pavlovian reflexes seems very far-fetched evidence for dogs being less sentient. I don't have access to the provided source, but most writings on on Pavlov reflexes don't even mention sentience. I suggest removing the paragraph. Or a at least removing the first sentence and merging the rest with the previous subsection. Alenoach ( talk) 13:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
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I looked up the definition of sentience and "the ability to feel" is not what came up.
Merriam Webster: Sentience: feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and THOUGHT. Thought: the action or process of THINKING Thinking: the action of using your mind to produce ideas, decisions, memories, etc.
Dictionary.com: Sentience: having the power of perception by the senses; CONSCIOUSNESS. Consciousness: awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
The scientifically respected turing test compared to this article about sentience conflict greatly.
There is not only a bias in the article leaning toward an animal rights agenda, but there are far too many lines fixated on that agenda instead of substantial scientific fact and theory.
I recommend a complete re-write of this article that is fixated on the science of sentience, not the opinions of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.107.211 ( talk) 16:37, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
feel
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).perception
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).not think
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).consciousness
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).The very first sentence of this article ("Sentience is the capacity to interpret feelings and sensations into self-awareness.") is unsupported by its own citation, which references the dictionary definition of the word. That definition contains no mention at all about self-awareness, much less the capacity to interpret feelings and sensations into it. It puzzles me that Wikipedia would feel free to redefine a word in a significant way like this, and then use a footnote to a source that doesn't at all support that statement. This misleads the casual reader into accepting a definition that goes significantly beyond the actual definition of the word. 184.99.176.147 ( talk) 18:13, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
"The term "sentience" is not used by major artificial intelligence textbooks and researchers."
the claim that AI research, for reasons unknown, would stubbornly refuse to discuss sentience (in any way) strikes me as preposterous. even the citation only provides evidence that four by now dated textbooks (supposedly) do not use the term. k kisses 17:14, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Doing a "find on page" search using Microsoft Edge, the word "insect" didn't come up. Maybe somebody can think this issue through and write a brief section on it. Me, I'm too busy with other things. Personally, I believe that insects are aware of their existence. Although many people would disagree. They have eyes and are able to see things. And they react like humans when threatened, planning strategies of escape and so on. They seem to react with pain if injured. 2600:8801:B011:300:10B7:8F72:424E:883 ( talk) 13:50, 13 May 2021 (UTC) James.
this article is very handwavy about sapience. strange, given there is a section on it. there is a link near the top, in the 'science fiction' section, and then i don't know what. i think a sentence or paragraph describing the differences would help me understand 24.132.57.190 ( talk) 19:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
The paragraph " Empirical data on conditioned reflex precision" seems only remotely connected to the topic of sentience. In particular the first sentence: the fact that dogs begin salivating at a larger frequency range in the context of Pavlovian reflexes seems very far-fetched evidence for dogs being less sentient. I don't have access to the provided source, but most writings on on Pavlov reflexes don't even mention sentience. I suggest removing the paragraph. Or a at least removing the first sentence and merging the rest with the previous subsection. Alenoach ( talk) 13:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)