Editing Sentience (section)

==== Phenomenal vs. affective consciousness====

[[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.<ref name="chalmers">{{cite AV media |people=Massimo Pigliucci, David Chalmers |date=Dec 18, 2020 |title=Philosophy Day 2020: David Chalmers - Consciousness and moral status |medium=YouTube |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP3ReZHGn7E | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/ZP3ReZHGn7E| archive-date=2021-10-31 | url-status=live|access-date=Sep 12, 2021 |publisher=Figs in Winter }}{{cbignore}}</ref>