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The Skeptics Guide #856 - Dec 4 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Are Sensitive?

The word sentient is misused where sapience should be used, says Jay Parini. A new headline suggests octopuss squids and lobsters could be identified as sentient beings in the u k. But that's not what sentiency means; we're talking about feeling pain or emotions. And i readou incremental advances are getting closer to being able to do that, but we haven't fully cracked that technology yet.

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