Interesting article on sentience. It is certainly a worthy academic study to determine what kind-of sentience other animals have. It is narcissistic to believe that the human brand of sentience is the only valid measure of it. We have to admit that these animals have been evolving at least as long as humans with some existing far longer than homo sapiens.
The problem, of course, is we will only study and measure the type of sentience which we are aware of. How can we study something that only a crow may have, which we are unaware of? For example, they are only starting to understand that some birds have an almost quantum-like 'feel' to assist them in navigating long distances. It may be difficult to study this as we humans just do not have this.
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