Sentience

Introduction to sentience

What is sentience

The problem of consciousness

Consciousness and self-consciousness

Animal consciousness and cognition

Animal sentience

Criteria for recognizing sentience

The idea that only humans are sentient

What beings are conscious?

What beings are not conscious?

Invertebrate sentience: A review of the neuroscientific literature

An illustrated physiology of nervous systems in invertebrates

Indicators of animal suffering

The relevance of sentience

The argument from relevance

Why we should give moral consideration to sentient beings, rather than all living beings

Why we should give moral consideration to sentient beings rather than ecosystems

Why we should give moral consideration to individuals, rather than species