Sentience: "What does Sentience mean?" (in relation to the Galactic Sentience that runs and operates the Galaxy)

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Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations, to have affective consciousness, subjective states that have a positive or negative valence (Chandroo et al., 2004). From: Neuroscience, 2022.

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