“Sentience has broader and narrower senses. In a broad sense, it refers to any capacity for conscious experience. […] In a narrower sense, it refers to the capacity to have valenced experiences: experiences that feel bad or feel good to the subject, such as experiences of pain and pleasure”.

Taken from https://academic.oup.com/book/57949/chapter/475703402

Also, here is an article about the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness that strongly supports the claim that sentience is a trait shared by most, if not all, of the animal kingdom.

https://www.animal-ethics.org/10th-anniversary-of-the-cambridge-declaration-on-consciousness/

The back lf your throat doesn’t have taste buds tho.

Thanks for pointing that out, it really does change the narrative!

Anyone else absolutely triggered that “first name of James Bong actors” was just a trap?

Violence, especially if said in a french accent. Also, Malaria and Ebola for twins.

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English is not my first langage, so these are usually a hard time for me. It was nice having an easier one this time!

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I scored 642/1000🎗️

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First time playing, that was fun! One the last one I first thought

Biologicalsex and gender are not synonyms.

*lose the “c’est” to have to correct way of saying it

The CAQ (ruling party) are NOT extreme separatists, and the law 101 that has french be prioritized in public advertising and facing services has been passed in 1978 to protect our cultural heritage. Otherwise yeah politics are spicier because of the separatist background which is still an ongoing question, but the whole thing still takes place on a very recognizable pattern of centre right liberals, conservatives, and libertarian-ish parties, with the occasional left leaning but still center crew.

You give meaning to your username

“You don’t deserve a home because spelling mistake.”

Its oddly weird seeing the rock with hair outside of wrestling

Internally Prolapsed Anus

I looked up authentic McCracken and nothing comes up apart from a couple linkedin profiles and baseball player Quinton McCracken. What did you mean by that?

Right? Felt like a sledgehammer to the dome

Brother you need to improve your reading comprehension. What about the whole ‘declassification is not done only by the president but its actually a whole process that goes through congress’ argument?

It is.