292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience

4049.093 - 4074.588 Jonathan Birch

These kinds of things are underway as we speak, I think. And it puts us in a really difficult position, I think, epistemically. They're really difficult to know what to say about these cases. In the book, I talk about the gaming problem, which is, I think, a huge problem in this area, which is that we've got our lists of markers developed in good faith for assessing crabs, octopuses, and so on.