The elusive science of animal sentience

A UK law says some invertebrates are sentient, but how do they know?

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Chapters:
00:00 pronunciation prelude
00:23 UK welfare law
01:13 very distant cousins
02:13 wait what is sentience?
03:35 the hard problem
04:20 reflex response
06:38 the octopus experiment
08:04 sentience criteria
10:54 making policy without proof
11:32 meanwhile on patreon