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Assessment and Communication for People with Disorders of Consciousness
Published on: August 1, 2017
Confidence Levels or Degrees of Sentience?
1University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Abstract:
I applaud recent improvements upon previous guidelines for the assessment of pain in non-human species and the application of their framework towards decapod crustaceans. Rather than constituting a mere intermediate solution between the scientific difficulty of settling questions of animal consciousness and the need for a framework for the purposes of animal welfare legislation, I will argue that the longer lists of criteria for animal sentience should make us realize that animal sentience is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that must be studied with a plethora of methods in order to assess its diversity across the tree of life.
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