Sentience
Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive. The term is used in science and philosophy, and in the research of artificial intelligence. Sentience is used in the study of consciousness to describe the ability to have sensations or experiences, known by Western philosophers as "qualia".
Colin McGinn believes that sentience will never be understood, that subjective experience will never be explained; sentience is the only aspect of consciousness that can't be explained.
Other philosophers, Daniel Dennett disagrees, arguing that all aspects of consciousness will eventually yield to scientific investigation.
The concept is related to the Bodhisattva, an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others.
Robert A. Freitas states that a gap in Sentience Quotient "may affect our ability, and the desirability, of communicating with extraterrestrial beings...It may be that there is a minimum SQ, "communication gap," an intellectual distance beyond which no two entities can meaningfully converse."
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