14.9 Sentience Flashcards
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Sentience
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encompasses the subjective qualia, phenomenal awareness, raw feelings, and first-person viewpoint of an experience - what it is like to be or do something.
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Determinism
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is the philosophical belief that all current and future events and actions, including human cognition, decisions, and behavior are caused by preceding events combined with the laws of nature.
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quantum theory
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was developed to explain not just black-body radiation, but also the emission of electrons from the surface of a metal in response to light, as well as why, when an electron loses energy, it stays in orbit and doesn’t crash into the nucleus.
