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Comment author: atucker 05 November 2011 01:54:09AM 1 point [-]

I'm a little confused by this use of the word sentient. I understand it to mean "qualia-bearing", and I believe that chimps and other animals probably have qualia.

Not all creatures with Qualia are self-aware, and I suspect that that's the property he's trying to talk about.

Dogs feel loyalty, but they don't necessarily know that they do. That is to say, if you somehow got a dog to talk, it wouldn't necessarily start talking about it's feeling towards others, or its thought processes.

Comment author: Grognor 05 November 2011 02:40:34AM 9 points [-]

Far Side on the subject.