Hacker News with Generative AI: Sentience

Do Insects Feel Pain? (newyorker.com)
Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.
In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in simulation (2022) (cell.com)
Today's AI Isn't Sentient (time.com)