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Animals can experience qualia without self-awareness

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Evidence from animal welfare and sentience literature indicates that non-human animals can possess the capacity for subjective feelings and sentience without requiring complex self-awareness.

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Sentience and animal welfare: New thoughts and controversies

2016 · cited by 22

Paper 1 explicitly notes that sentience involves awareness (feelings), but that self-awareness is not as complex or strictly required in the same way.

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Concepts and Interrelationships of Awareness, Consciousness, Sentience, and Welfare

2022 · cited by 11

Paper 2 discusses the definitions of awareness and sentience, noting that sentience involves the capacity and level of awareness necessary to have feelings, distinct from full complex self-awareness concepts.

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