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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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Papers 1 and 2 explicitly address the distinction between basic awareness/sentience (the capacity for feelings or qualia) and higher-order self-awareness, supporting the premise that animals can experience the former without possessing the latter.

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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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