New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings - eviltoast
  • CallumWells@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I mean, yeah. The bar for sentience is very low. Sapience is a lot higher of a bar.
    People have shown that plants can be sentient after all (they can feel pain at least, IIRC). So it makes sense that almost any multicellular organism above a certain amount of cells would be sentient.