What does it mean that animals are sentient?
Sentience is the capacity to be affected positively or negatively. It is the capacity to have experiences...
A conscious being is a subject of experience, meaning an entity that can experience what happens to itself...
'Being conscious' is synonymous with 'having experiences'. To say that someone has the experience of something is equivalent to saying that he or she is conscious of it...
To be sentient is to be capable of being affected positively or negatively
