If that’s what you think about the concept of sentience, fine; I can restate my reply without using that concept. I would draw the boundary at the ability to experience the sensation of “liking”, as that term is operationally defined by Kent Berridge.
We may be actually more uncertain about what sentience is rather than where it begins. It could belong to the “free will” category of concepts.
If that’s what you think about the concept of sentience, fine; I can restate my reply without using that concept. I would draw the boundary at the ability to experience the sensation of “liking”, as that term is operationally defined by Kent Berridge.