To provide adequate care for sentient animals, like orcas, caretakers must interact with them.
Looking at the long, long, long term, the cosmos isn't shaping up well for sentient beings or any other living things.
For sentient beings this implies that the cosmos is also participatory.
Nanostellar designs molecules for removing particulates out of diesel fuel.
A philosophical zombie is a molecule by molecule duplicate of a sentient creature, a normal human-being, for example, but who differs from that creature in lacking any phenomenal consciousness.
You'd have to have, molecule for molecule, another object at the other end, whose information is different from yours.
A new magic bullet could replace, molecule for molecule, the female hormones that failing ovaries could no longer secrete.
Completing the Kangyur, the Tibetan-language version of the sacred Buddhist texts, is done as a form of prayer for peace for all sentient beings, several monks explained.
I believe in having compassion for all sentient beings; therefore, I do not eat meat.
Though the monks' orange-robed parliamentary leader, the Venerable Athuraliye Rathana, wants peace for most sentient beings, Tamil rebels are clearly excluded.
