Pain sentience criteria and their grading
Eva Jablonka, Simona Ginsburg
Abstract
On the basis of the target article by Crump and colleagues, we suggest a more parsimonious scheme for evaluating the evidence for sentience. Since some of the criteria used by Crump et al. are not independent and some are uninformative we exclude some criteria and amalgamate others. We propose that evidence of flexible learning and prioritization, in conjunction with relevant data on brain organization, is sufficient for assigning pain-sentience to an animal and we suggest a scoring scheme based on four criteria.
Topics & Concepts
SentiencePrioritizationGrading (engineering)PsychologyClassification schemeScheme (mathematics)Computer scienceCognitive psychologyArtificial intelligenceMachine learningBiologyMathematicsManagement scienceEcologyEngineeringMathematical analysisPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentPain Management and Placebo EffectHuman-Animal Interaction Studies