This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient electromechanical life.

Sentiocentrism is the theory that sentient individuals are the subject of moral concern and therefore deserve rights.

The best response to this argument is that the wrongness of causing needless suffering to sentient beings is not culturally specific.

We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects like, you know, shoes, leather belts, handbags, etc., where no sentient creature is harmed.

Long before Western philosophers included animals in their ethics, Chinese philosophers like Zhuangzi said that love should permeate relations not only between humans, but between all sentient beings.

For centuries, humans in industrialized countries have treated animals as units of production, rather than as sentient beings with a moral status that requires us to take their interests into account.

We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being.

Publicity for the new film claims that it is the first live action film in the history of movies to star, and be told from the point of view of, a sentient animal.

The best response to this argument is that the wrongness of causing needless suffering to sentient beings is not culturally specific. It is, for example, one of the first precepts of one of Japan s major ethical traditions, Buddhism.

There are good grounds for objecting to turning a sentient being into a patented laboratory tool, but it is not so easy to see why patent law should not cover newly designed bacteria or algae, which can feel nothing and may be as useful as any other invention.

Once we're prepared to admit that after all, we're not the only beings with personalities, minds and above all feelings, and then we start to think about ways we use and abuse so many other sentient, sapient creatures on this planet, it really gives cause for deep shame, at least for me.

Or, is it possible that we're just a branch off of a multiverse each branch with its own Big Bang in its past maybe some of them with black holes playing drums, maybe some without maybe some with sentient life, and maybe some without not in our past, not in our future, but somehow fundamentally connected to us?