jhuffman comments on Dissolving the Question of Life - Less Wrong
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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.