jhuffman comments on Dissolving the Question of Life - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jhuffman 15 June 2011 12:48:36AM *  0 points [-]

I'm not sure everyone spends much time thinking about sentience. But people seem prone to empathy and the more an animal seems like a person, the more empathy we have.

An animal could be more "personlike" on different dimensions including sentience, but also including facial expressions.