Non-human animals, of course, are not the only beings with an ambiguous sentience stature that poses complicated questions. Birch discusses people with disorders of consciousness, embryos and ...

It was humorous decades ago when I first saw it, though I cringe now as it really does not help answer any questions how we treat sentient / near-sentient beings.

The government has this afternoon announced that lobsters, crabs, and octupus, are to be covered in its definition of a sentient being. Decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs will now be ...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard took on the legal battle to define androids as sentient beings. The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram aboard the U.S.S. Voyager, joined a rebellion of holograms ...