#34 - Sentience, with Walter Veit, Dennis Hackethal, and Matt Guttman
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren - A podcast by Christofer Lövgren
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Christofer, Walter Veit, Dennis Hackethal, and Matt Guttman speak about whether animals are sentient in this episode of Do Explain. Walter argues "yes", Dennis argues "no" and Matt argues that the hard problem really is hard. They discuss the difference between sentience and consciousness, the special way humans learn, consciousness as a binary jump vs. gradually evolving, animals as mere robots, information processing and computation, the hard problem of consciousness, anthropomorphism, panp...
