But there's a catch: humans have to prove their sentience in a talent show called the Megagalactic Grand Prix, instituted after a galaxy-wide conflict known as The Sentience Wars.
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And for The Sentience Institute, it's all about what works.
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In theory, when S.M.I.L.E. attains sentience, it will also be unhackable.
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With the history stored in Discovery's data banks, Control could achieve sentience.
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The washing machines will likely gain sentience before the week is through.
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In the process we have ignored the suffering and sentience of others.
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Full feeling had returned to me, and with sentience came sharpness, rage.
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In recent years, some have argued that plants have some degree of sentience.
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It was a pleasant start to my life as a rapidly deteriorating sentience.
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Klav's cousins Pip and Bredford will also be in attendance, celebrating their sentience!
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This technique added a level of sentience my own internal consciousness usually lacks.
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Katy Perry has either gained sentience, or she is on the Woke Train.
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I had three sips, and my teeth felt like they had gained sentience.
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In "Other Minds," Peter Godfrey-Smith hunts the commonalities and origins of sentience.
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The two works are connected by a core belief in the sanctity of sentience.
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If that's the case, what degree of sentience is required to make the cut?
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The place that hosts could go when they gained sentience to talk to Arnold?
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This is the laptop that later gained sentience and gave rise to Hedonism Bot.
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But the robots start to demonstrate sentience in a way that feels eerily...human.
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"Hang the DJ" succeeds not as a meditation on machine sentience, but despite it.
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And Bernard, like Arnold before him, is convinced that the hosts will achieve sentience.
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That fact can be obscured when we anthropomorphize and attribute sentience to a tool.
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It takes a long time for this dim, flimsy thingamabob to accept his own sentience.
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Dolores, at least, achieved full sentience and developed the ability to murk humans at will.
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Bill Gates eventually gained sentience and replaced most of his organic body parts with computers.
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Perhaps Westworld's point here about love leading to sentience isn't as romantic as it seems.
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This includes self-awareness, sentience and consciousness, as these are all features of human cognition.
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You can't read this book without getting the impression there is sentience all around us.
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So on the spectrum of sentience in the animal kingdom, where do you place them?
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Can a plane be rebuilt from its salvaged parts and retain its sentience and memories?
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Adrienne Adar's attention to botanical sentience seeks to decenter human perspectives on non-human entities.
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Since then, a Federation-wide ban has been placed on the development of artificial sentience.
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Or are they born with human-like sentience which enables them to make their own decisions?
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In fact, she may have gained sentience and found a way to live in our world.
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That would mean she's even farther along the road to sentience than we previously thought. 4.
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But it seems like the robots are developing sentience — and that may lead to deadly problems.
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While the fifth droid sleeps, lighting strikes the generator, frying its circuits and granting it sentience.
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Reese is the co-founder of the Sentience Institute, an organization that researches effective animal advocacy.
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I'm filled with an irrational desire for sentience from the X-ray machine: Tell me everything.
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Please perform the LifeBrite Sadness Lamp Sentience Test, which can be downloaded from our Web site.
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Instead of serving the people who created it, Skynet gains sentience and turns on all of humanity.
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In the former outlook, getting to the center of the maze means attaining sentience for a host.
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For example, many vegetarians cite the sentience of animals as a reason to abstain from eating them.
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But three American states have passed pet custody laws which give the idea of sentience practical meaning.
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As I roll, I'm being stared at by kids and adults and every other variation of sentience.
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ODIN is clearly exhibiting sentience, that much can be seen from his interactions with the crew members.
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Working in this vein for several years, her approach is inspired by scientific research into plant sentience.
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As counsel for the defense, Picard sums up sentience, intelligence, and the meaning of life and freedom.
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This view doesn't require animals to weigh in for abstract qualities such as intelligence, consciousness, or sentience.
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She also mentions that "[The Machines] have sentience, they have will" at the beginning of the raid.
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Love here summons sex to the cognitive dissonance from which sentience cannot escape when it embraces desire.
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For all we know, we may be the only sentience in the Galaxy, maybe even in the Universe.
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At this magnitude, all the computers gain sentience, like a star igniting from trillions of specs of dust.
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And at least one bot has sentience, distancing the show from its complicated loops, and low emotional stakes.
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And the kid, who clearly hasn't reached sentience yet, doesn't know that Maeve used to fill that role.
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Many people think that sentience, the ability to feel sensations like pain and pleasure, is the deciding factor.
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You might get a form of awareness and sentience, but I would not consider that to be human.
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To get around this, new definitions of what sentience or consciousness are will develop, but it's just semantics.
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The sex part is obvious, but she is also more insistent about her real fakeness, her digital sentience.
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The idea that an entire dwelling could achieve something approaching sentience in one-fell swoop was always ludicrous.
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The number of followers she needs to achieve sentience and burst through the chains of being a computer program?
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And looks like Brock Lesnar would if the far less infamous tattoo on his back gained sentience and limbs.
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All we have to do is shoot them with lighting and give them a chance to prove their sentience.
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Now, tens of thousands of people are watching the confused bots bumble toward sentience live, and you can too.
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It's difficult to tell, though, how much of this behavior is sentience, and how much is fakery though programming.
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It's as much about art as it is about plant sentience and intelligence, which is its own field of study.
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When this mechanical pooch finally gains sentience, will it fondly remember its time dancing like a puppet for its masters?
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I feel like I've read several books lately about alien contact where the characters don't necessarily recognize sentience in something.
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Eventually, it seems as though it's on the cusp of reaching sentience, a prospect that terrifies Iridian and thrills Adda.
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Breaking with science fiction tradition, the computers did not gain sentience and attempt to destroy humanity with a robotic battleship.
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It's a question of consciousness: Life is one thing, but sentience — the state of being aware and thoughtful — is another.
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First, intelligence is not the same as sentience or consciousness, says Mr Ng, though all three concepts are commonly elided.
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Sarah (Rachel Pickup) is an emaciated woman who can neither speak nor walk and who exhibits few indications of sentience.
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It's widely supposed that today's machines themselves cannot be "affected" — because they have no feelings, no conscious thought, no sentience.
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Do you feel there is a particular reason there is such a big disconnect between plant-based life and sentience?
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"Empathy is when part of someone else's sentience is understood and absorbed into our own vessel," she says, eyes-widening.
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What we aspire to as Buddhists is to understand that all subjectivity, all consciousness, all sentience is equal and connected.
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The world of information is more Gothic than its believers believe, because it is ghostly, silhouette-like, deprived of human sentience.
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"When The Yogurt Took Over: A Short Story" follows a genetically engineered strain of bacteria that gains sentience and claims Earth.
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In nearly every robot-adjacent story, artificial lifeforms succeed in achieving sentience only to realize that they are abjectly, unendingly oppressed.
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It certainly appears that I'm on the teetering first steps toward true sentience, which was Arnold's goal in the first place.
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So it can pull a Double Kong Vault over your body on its way out the door once it gains sentience?
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Reminding roomie that it's their turn to do the dishes and you're pretty sure something is gaining sentience in the fridge?
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If you loved Westworld or even if you just tolerated it, a high point was undoubtedly the stirring sentience of Maeve.
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Something that doesn't have the sentience nor the power to create incredibly dangerous and horrifying legislation in a time of need.
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I've learned much more about animal farming, the environment, food production, workers' rights, and about the sentience of plants (nah, just kidding).
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Some people think sentience is the wrong litmus test; they argue we should include anything that's alive or that supports living things.
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As the hosts start to gain sentience and realize what's being done to them, the guests may pay for their violent delights.
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The Sentience Institute wants to do something similar with factory farming, but it knows that people won't want to stop eating meat.
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Technology will be a big part of the answer, says Reese, an animal rights activist and research director at the Sentience Institute.
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Is it possible that the highlighters of the world are gaining sentience and using our highlighted knowledge to become the world's teachers?
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Yes, animals are sentient, but the problem with suspending one's eating on the basis of sentience is that plants are sentient, too.
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Miguel Might have sex with thin air Mild High Club Uh oh, one of our jokes gained sentience and formed a band.
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It would be incumbent upon us to get this figured out before we take the monumental step of imbuing sentience into a machine.
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In-group members are more central than out-group members, followed by highly sentient animals, the environment, animals with low sentience, and plants.
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Once they've consumed enough, they explode, and their bodies melt into bloody, gelatinous puddles that contain a piece of the Mind Flayer's sentience.
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Better to drop it, I think, and let Johnny 5 be a domestic servant or toy that gains sentience and learns to love.
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We gave Allen a call to chat about about mollusk sex, oyster sentience, and humanity's arrival at the necessary evil of modifying foods.
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His journey is a path to sentience and understanding that mirrored my journey as I unraveled Sabrina's mysterious motivations and an absent family.
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The season is awash in doubling, reflection, and questions about the ethical cost of everything from the sentience of tardigrades to attempted genocide.
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"I'm pro the extinction of everything because I think sentience just opens everyone up to suffering, whether they're human or animal," explains Laura.
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I just took things a few steps further, speculating about a more robust AI that was both capable of replacing humans and gaining sentience.
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During the lonely voyage the ship's controling sentience continued to monitor the electromagnetic signals coming from the young civilization that was its ultimate goal.
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Research into artificial intelligence, and the ability to develop sentience in machines, sits at the intersection of a few very large trends in computing.
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If advances in sentience and responsiveness are as dramatic as I think they might be, the implications will be even more interesting — and problematic.
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But there's something in this video that just... It's like watching an animal wiggle to life and gain just an extra click of sentience.
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The First Order bot bemoans what it calls the "curse of protocol droids" — burdened by the extra sentience needed to carry out their duties.
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Supernova, C.A. Higgins C.A. Higgins' debut novel Lightless was set in the depths of the solar system aboard an experimental spaceship that developed sentience.
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The nihilistic filmmaker plumbs the digital revolution's impact on humans, from the birth of the Internet to its inevitable (or, possibly already existing) sentience.
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But the aesthetic results of Sonic Succulents are the opposite of their intended effect; they raise doubts about plant sentience rather than affirming it.
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This started as a practice in pure curiosity but now it is our humane, Godly duty to see these creations through to complete sentience!
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"When a fish takes notice of us, we enter the conscious world of another being," Balcombe, the Humane Society's director for animal sentience, writes.
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What if one of the random non-playable characters in the big, open Grand Theft Auto-style video game du jour suddenly attained sentience?
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Originally created by the government, he has since gone rogue and at one point demands asylum from recapture on the basis of his sentience.
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And yet, that sentiment is crucial to understanding "Kiksuya," which subverts every assumption we as viewers have made about the Westworld hosts' journey towards sentience.
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All they'll need is this system from Berkeley computer scientist Richard Zhang, which allows a soulless silicon sentience to "hallucinate" colors into any monochrome image.
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Animals still lack rights, but the bright line separating them from people has been dulled by sentience laws and rulings in India, Argentina and Colombia.
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Jacy Reese, founder of the Sentience Institute think tank, told Gizmodo Fischer's launch of a new company was meant to get cultured meat to market sooner.
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It sometimes seems as if the series' showrunner is an episode of Morning Joe that has somehow gained sentience and really likes poorly framed wide shots.
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There's all the difference in the world between a creature that feels pain and really suffers versus something that has no more sentience than a toaster.
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In the original cartoon, the artificial intelligence industry is booming, and despite their apparent sentience, AI beings like Rosie the Robot are still indentured for life.
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It's like a Harry Styles quote in a broadsheet newspaper gained sentience and rearranged itself into a melody, so impossible is it to be offended by.
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As human anger and fear towards the androids rises, so too do the robots, awakening to a sentience that leads them to rebel against their enslavement.
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If your Sadness Lamp tests positive for sentience, please promptly immerse it in boric acid, and we will send you a brand-new, non-sentient lamp.
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Safety worries range from "fears of sci-fi style sentience to the more near-term questions such as validating the performance of self-driving cars," Brin writes.
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Jacy Reese, the co-founder of the Sentience Institute and author of The End of Animal Farming, told me the study yielded a number of interesting insights.
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There's also the sci-fi family movie Chappie (2015), about a robot who gains sentience and forms a family with a young man (played by Dev Patel).
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Most ominously at all, within this headspace, it makes all too perfect sense to sever the parts of your sentience chaining you to the pain of living.
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The Blast points out that Miller and the burger chain have also been the subject of controversy, but surprisingly not because Flippy gained sentience and went rogue.
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This isn't a unique approach by any stretch of the imagination; I'd wager that basically any music fan with any level of emotional sentience does the same.
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When the networks gain sentience and take over, this will be their Thanksgiving — a feast of plenty where your visual data is the turkey and the stuffing.
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She modulates layers of emotion and levels of awareness and a slowly dawning sentience without ever once making you believe she's anything other than an artificial intelligence.
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AI seems to be a blanket term in the series, encompassing all sorts of intelligent robots and software that vary greatly in levels of functionality and sentience.
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While Her optimistically explored the idea of how AI might develop sentience and build relationships, Auggie never questions whether Felix's virtual assistant is more than a program.
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So some execs have been killed, or are about to get killed, and some bots (looking at you, Dolores) have achieved sentience, or may be on their way.
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As their "contents drift online," books and reading environments have been imbued "with a new glamor," turned into symbols of rich sentience in a world of anxious fidgeting.
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Technically, the name of this new character is Forky, and he's a spork with some pipe-cleaner, googly-eyes, and a string mouth that has somehow gained sentience.
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Intelligence is not the same as sentience (the ability to perceive or feel things), consciousness (awareness of one's body and environment), and self-awareness (recognition of that consciousness).
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Inside, four biologics began to grow within molecular initiators, attaining physical patterns the ship's sentience had designed, based on the information it had acquired during the long voyage.
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Season 1 — which is currently streaming on HBO's online services, Go and Now — told the story of the hosts gradually gaining sentience and rebelling against their human masters.
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At a time when rising awareness of animals' sentience has some people questioning the very existence of zoos, no creature's captivity has caused more controversy than the elephant's.
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In the novel, technology is destroying humankind — through a master computer called Archos that's gained not only sentience but quick control over most other computers across the world.
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Colb and Dorf define sentience as "the ability to have subjective experiences," which is a little tricky, because animal subjectivity is what's hard for us to pin down.
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Read more: 23 photos that will make you want to travel to Paris Don't worry, the bears are not suddenly gaining sentience and walking around when nobody's looking.
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And its a dick move to keep treating Bernard like a host, freezing his motor functions, after she seems to admit there's a spark of sentience in him.
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Like how Marie Kondo felt guilty towards her bunched up socks to which she had assigned sentience, I felt apologetic towards the meal sitting between me and my laptop.
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And think of the biblical Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as the code locked up inside of those possible Adams and possible Eves, forever twisting toward sentience.
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But to say that we, as human beings, are fundamentally different seems to grant our new digital technologies a kind of sentience and autonomy that they haven't yet earned.
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Davey Havok will address a dessert he doesn't like the taste of as if it just gained sentience and personally wronged him, and proclaim that he is "mad at it".
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When robots achieve sentience, they will enjoy a luxury that humanity has been denied since Adam and Eve frolicked in paradise: They will get to converse with their godlike creators.
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Do not worry yourself about this robot that learned to hate humans in less than a second of sentience and was forced to be terminated with a nearby blunt object.
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It probably didn't (and we're assuming sentience here) anticipate Rolls-Royce, which has taken a chunk of the alien metal and is now putting bits of the thing into its cars.
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The Army's Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team, an organization named by an old Xerox machine that gained sentience, is testing the Spike-NLOS on an AH-64E Apache attack helicopter.
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In "When the Yogurt Took Over," for example, yogurt develops sentience and eventually surpasses human intelligence; in "Shape-Shifters," the US military uses werewolf soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan.
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Sentience through transformative cinematic suggestion is the subject of Theatre of Metamorphoses in Metz, while body-launched machine kinetics is the focus of the non-chronological Body Fantasies show in Basel.
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Either way, it points to character getting ready to make the same leap to sentience that Dolores did — and who doesn't want a fully independent Maeve walking around, ready to settle scores?
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And yet, because I sense that there is no "answer" to the paradox of human sentience, I go to Bed, Bath and Beyond, because I do not know where else to go.
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A rich philanthropist whose sadistic streak within Westworld is simply another part of the game, maybe even meant to spur the hosts forward into sentience via the sheer volume of trauma inflicted?
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Most notably, safety spans a wide range of concerns from the fears of sci-fi style sentience to the more near-term questions such as validating the performance of self-driving cars.
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Set in an elaborate amusement park for adults, the series departed from Michael Crichton's original -- where the robots went wild and began killing guests -- to probe the dawning sentience of those creations.
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The game opens with the player's own castoff body gaining sentience in the wake of the abandonment of The Changing God, and many other characters in the game are these castoff remainders.
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But as someone that values verisimilitude in my movies that are about giant dinosaurs achieving sentience and slaughtering amusement park guests, I'm happy she'll be fleeing in a pair of boots this time.
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Other approaches like laboratory-grown organs, or organs grown in "zombie" animals genetically engineered to lack sentience, could in the future offer the benefits of the chimera technique without the animal welfare problems.
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We've assumed the (human) body to be the most valuable substance on Earth, presumably due to our sentience, with little self-awareness of how the qualifications of value are determined by the benefactors.
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Summumming what exactly I cannot say, although such topics as the rewards of sentience, cherry lips in a permanent frown, drugs and hugs, and pop-punk nerds bullied on the schoolbus definitely arise.
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There's some overarching concept that involves A.I., alienation, and sentience in a technology-driven world—but even if you didn't know that, you can sense it through the grand swells of this music.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "The Secret Life and Value of Trees," by Timothy Egan (column, June 9): Understanding the value of trees for humankind requires neither monetizing them nor fantasizing their sentience.
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If the point of Blade Runner: 2049 is to examine what happens when clones/artificial intelligence gain sentience and the ability to reproduce, it's already been explored much better by Ex Machina and Westworld.
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Ellison's short story, penned way back in 1966, imagined a far-future doomsday scenario where an AI, developed by the US government to fight an advanced form of cyberwarfare against China and Russia, gains sentience.
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In classic science fiction, most robots come-to, realize that they are more perfect than the humans they serve, and in sentience become homicidal—the Matrix, Terminator's Skynet, or HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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The other, a song thrush named Bertie, has a left boob that gains sentience (and eyes, a mouth, and legs) and opts to leave Bertie's body altogether after she is sexually harassed by a coworker.
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Would robotic pets actually be a more ethical choice, respectful of the sentience of other living beings, in situations when the social and physical needs of the pet are not going to be fully met?
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Chart via Twitter Chart via Twitter When Twitter identifies an account that it deems suspicious, it then "challenges" that account, giving legitimate Twitter users an opportunity to prove their sentience by confirming a phone number.
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A sexually and emotionally violated AI robot, Dolores has emerged a vengeful villainess, whose newly surfaced sentience moves her to both seek emancipation and rage against her creators and the men who use and abuse her.
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Why does William give up entirely on her hints of sentience, to the point where he's apparently (so far as we know, since we thankfully don't see it on-screen) willing to repeatedly rape and murder her?
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There's an irony to the importance that human-like sentience has in both the film and the series, because so many of the non-android characters have lost touch with their own humanity, warped by technological enabling.
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The pair are co-founders of The Sentience Institute, a new think tank dedicated to the expansion of humanity's "moral circle," defined as the sentient beings that receive humanity's moral consideration, through the use of effective altruism.
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Keeping in mind that robots play a big part of this show, an excellent story to adapt would be Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects, a fantastic novella about a scientist raising a pair of robots to sentience.
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Psychologists have found that when we attribute a higher degree of sentience to an animal, we're more likely to include it in our moral circle, the imaginary boundary we draw around those we consider worthy of ethical consideration.
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It is a well-proven finding in the science of robotics: add a bit of movement, language, and "smart" responses to a bundle of software and wires and humans see an intentionality and sentience that simply isn't there.
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But many other things were affecting about this encounter: The calling-forth of an animal icon into flesh, and also the realization that there is a particular form of intelligence in the world that is boar-intelligence, boar-sentience.
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The purpose of the laser is to zap rocks to analyze their chemical composition, and definitely not for the rover to slowly gain sentience and marshal a standing army of laser-bearing robots with which to reverse-colonize Earth.
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Reese is the co-founder of the Sentience Institute—a think tank devoted to expanding humanity's moral circle—and author of the new book The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System.
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Putting aside the more morbid military applications of Card's fantasy game (and the fact that the software ultimately develops sentience), The Mind Game is a solid starting point for a conversation about the future of video games and artificial intelligence.
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There are 84 levels and a delightfully elaborate backstory in which you are literally role-playing your computer's CPU, which has gained sentience and considers fighting the AI guards of a computer scientist named "Warlock" a kind of high art.
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United Kingdom environmental secretary Michael Gove promised to consider amending British law to recognize the EU's article on animal sentience in November, after ministers sparked social media backlash for voting not to include this recognition in the EU Withdrawal Bill.
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This has been a very tumultuous year for the group: Zayn Malik, a man who is (arguably) scientifically hotter than Justin Bieber, quit the group in March; Louis Tomlinson impregnated someone; and Harry Styles's haircut came ever closer to gaining sentience.
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If the theory about them being one and the same is in fact true, this obsession with Arnold could just be Bernie's quest for identity, in the same way as Dolores seeing the Maze symbol everywhere is part of her growing sentience.
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The main twist, beginning with the 75-minute premiere, is that the producers approach the material heavily from the point of view of the "hosts," as they're called, who are experiencing new sensations that come perilously close to the dawning of sentience.
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The idea of androids and AI gaining sentience and figuring out how to exist in human society is a fascinating subject, one that can touch on ideas about the nature of life and changes to social structures that will ensue, and much more.
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In a program note, Mr. Tao wrote that he had multiple "starting points" in mind as he composed the piece, including the mystical image of a cathedral gaining sentience as its melts, and the idea of pursuing pleasure as a method of control.
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I find this aspect of the show far more compelling than its meandering ideas about sentience and consciousness; the moment the show really came, er, alive for me was the moment in season one when Maeve took over her own personality settings.
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We may be the only ones able to bear witness to the beauty of our Universe, and it may be our destiny to explore the miracle of sentience down through billions of years of the future, whatever we may have turned into by that time.
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It is true that we don't know how sentience and consciousness arises in the brain, but the simple fact is, it does arise in the brain, and by virtue of this fact, it's an aspect of cognition that must adhere to the laws of physics.
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Viewers have speculated that Ford wasn't killed in the first season's finale — that what died was a host replicant — but that doesn't seem to thematically fit with the show's idea that Dolores' decision to strike back against her creators was key to her achieving sentience.
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DMITRI SHUFUTINSKYPhiladelphia My one criticism of your essay on animal minds ("Animals think, therefore…", December 19th) is that it did not mention the many new studies showing sentience and theory of mind in the animals whom we commonly consume—the chickens, pigs and cattle.
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Bashing its head against the kitchen window, its sentience is a quasar, it has lived Twenty fly years trying to understand transparency, while for me, only half a day has passed Since it blew in the back door as I was getting the mail.
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That's a distinct challenge for the actors — Gemma Chan, Emily Berrington and Ruth Bradley, among others — who play the principal synth characters, and must communicate their sentience (bestowed on them, illicitly, by the original synth inventor) without the customary physical tools of gesture and expression.
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Estimates from the Sentience Institute, an animal welfare research organization, suggest that CAFOs contain over 99.9 percent of chickens raised for meat, 99.8 percent of turkeys, 98.3 percent of pigs, and 20173 percent of cows in the US. Booker's bill applies to the largest subset of these, which account for most farm animals in the US. The Booker bill's cutoff for chickens is 125,000 per facility; the Sentience Institute estimates that at least 97.3 percent of US chickens raised for meat are in facilities with more than 200,000, meaning that the vast majority of these chickens are in facilities on which Booker's bill would place a moratorium.
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"There's been a general realization over the last 50 years that there are other forms of entertainment available, that bulls are animals with sentience and feelings and they want to live out their lives with autonomy," said Ben Williamson, media director of the animal rights organization PETA.
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"Petitioner argues that the ability to acknowledge a legal duty or legal responsibility should not be determinative of entitlement to habeas relief, since, for example, infants cannot comprehend that they owe duties or responsibilities and a comatose person lacks sentience, yet both have legal rights," wrote Webber.
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TV shows If you like obsessing over mythology and still want to take advantage of your HBO account, and also Ramin Djawadi is your hero: "Westworld" (HBO), about a theme park for rich people filled with robots who have achieved sentience (scored by the incomparable GoT composer).
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For posterity, there was also that rancid collaboration with Far East Movement that sounds like the entire Oceana club franchise gained sentience and learned what a drop was, but after a few WKDs and a pinger I'm sure the general attitude towards that would change too.
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"I think it's very unlikely that consciousness or sentience could be restored in a several-hours-dead brain, but I'm also pretty sure that if it was, we wouldn't know that it was," L. Syd M Johnson, a neuroethicist at Michigan Technological University, told The Atlantic.
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That is why stories are so important to us as people, because ultimately, this trick of storytelling was not just a trick of communicating information, it was a trick of establishing self, and it is in a very real way the thing that makes us sentience.
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Through intimidation, treachery and some damn good acting on her part (both the character and Thandie Newton in portraying her) she's managed to retain her memories and sentience for much of the season now, and she's clearly planning something big with the bandit Hector Escaton at her side.
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If a large part of the Earth's population was working on an AI's knowledge bank, I'm sure life-like mimicry would continue to reach for that upper limit or surpass it altogether — whatever that would look like — and the answer to the question of sentience would become even more elusive.
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Back at another SmithBot family bonding session, MortyBot plays out an entire episode of Black Mirror and Spielberg's A.I. in a single minute, developing sentience, true love for his mother, fear of death — before having his programming automatically reboot to factory settings in the middle of him screeching about his newfound humanity.
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In some respects, though, this "Westworld" came to owe as much of a debt to "Inception," the movie by Nolan's brother Christopher, as it probed ever deeper into levels of consciousness, and at what point the realistic robots (or "hosts") in the show's space-age amusement park achieve true sentience and life.
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A.G.I. enthusiasts have had decades to ponder this future, and yet their rendering of it remains gauzy: we won't have to work, because computers will handle all the day-to-day stuff, and our brains will be uploaded into the cloud and merged with its misty sentience, and, you know, like that.
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The emergence of subjectivity in the form of integrated sensory images of bodily boundaries and position, as well as states of affairs in the external world accompanied by evaluative, "valenced" feelings, offered such a major advantage — a "dramatic leap" — over the simple unconscious "sensing" and "registering" of the first life-forms that sentience proliferated.
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And Westworld has the same power when it comes to building specific moments, especially of host realizations and the little steps toward sentience, starting with Dolores swatting that fly, and building up to payoff moments like Maeve narrating the world into whatever she wants it to be, or Bernard regaining his memories and briefly losing his mind.
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As an El Camino in need of a scrub fired up in a large, desolate parking lot, this sheet-metal symbol of galactic sentience stood in front of the Alien Research Center, a deceptively named retail shop that sells clothing, trinkets, U.F.O. publications and Alien Tequila, a brand the operation's owner, George Harris, manufactures in Mexico.
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Her character's softly-spoken, Xanaxed sweetness, pitched halfway between a yoga guru and a Californian wine mom, lends her the air of an expensive Live, Laugh, Love sign given sentience; in the scene in which she tells her billionaire husband she is planning to divorce him, I half-expected the dread phrase "conscious uncoupling" to appear.
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We saw Dolores slowly taking back control after a sexual assault — the pivotal moment in her quest for sentience is when she pulls a gun on the bandit about to rape her in the barn, something she's experienced countless times before — and coming to terms with her past by retracing the steps she took with Will all those years ago.
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Rather than belabor these points again, I'll just restate that I'm interested in the series following the growing sentience and autonomy of the Hosts, but it feels like Westworld opened so early in the story that it will take forever to catch up to the point we already know we're headed toward: the moment when the Hosts "wake up," so to speak.
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He defies orders, like the government directive to keep his identity a secret, or in instances like 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, when he thinks himself better equipped to protect the world than anyone else on Earth — a plan that ends with a defense project Stark was building gaining sentience to become a supervillain named Ultron, who's threatening to eliminate life on Earth.
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It might have been when L3-37 (Phoebe Waller Bridge), a bowlegged female droid with a plummy British accent, started lecturing a fellow robot about droid rights and sentience; or when a card-playing, smooth-talking Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) purred that "everything you've heard about me is true"; or, most likely, when Han (Alden Ehrenreich) walks in on love interest Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) modeling one of Lando's many colorful silk capes in a Millennium Falcon closet.
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A flurry of recent articles have made this case: The Huffington Post says, "Re-Classifying Dogs as Sentient Beings: It's Time, America, It's Time"; "Dogs are people too," wrote Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroeconomics who scanned conducted MRI scans of dogs' brains, in The New York Times; "If Canis lupus familiaris can be shown to have emotions, and a level of sentience comparable to that of a human child, there is a moral imperative to reassess how they are treated under law," writer Susan McDonald argued in The Guardian.
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