In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal. And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence and sentience truly are.

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Credits: What is Sentience? Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 283, March 25, 2021

Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Writers: Isaac Arthur Jerry Guern

Editors: Darius Said Jason Burbank Matthew Campbell S. Kopperud

Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik

Music by : Miguel Johnson, "Far from home" Reign Pagaran, " Distant Voyager"

Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"

Stellardrone, " An Ocean of Galaxies"

Epic Mountain, "Space Travel"