David Chalmers argues that sentience is sometimes used as shorthand for phenomenal consciousness, the capacity to have any subjective experience at all, but sometimes refers to the narrower concept of affective consciousness, the capacity to experience subjective states that have affective valence (i.e., a positive or negative character), such as pain and pleasure.
David Chalmers argues that sentience is sometimes used as shorthand for phenomenal consciousness the capacity to have any subjective experience at all but sometimes refers to the narrower concept of affective consciousness the capacity to experience subjective states that have affective valence (ie a positive or negative character) such as pain and pleasure