Michael Pollan

It involves ability to sense your changes in your environment, assess whether they're good or bad, and allow you to move toward one and away from the other.

It may be a property of life.

Single-celled creatures, you know, bacteria have chemotaxis, so they can distinguish between molecules that are good food and ones that'll kill them and act accordingly.

So sentience is kind of very basic, perhaps permeates all of life.

I can't be sure about that.

Consciousness is a more elaborate form of sentience that involves other things such as a sense of awareness, feelings.

In the case of humans, not only awareness, but awareness we're aware, we layer it.

And so human consciousness is just how we do sentience.

And every creature that is conscious does it in a slightly different way, presumably.

Reflecting their sensorium, their body type, the scale at which they operate, all these kind of things.

Intelligence and consciousness are not on a spectrum or together.

They're orthogonal, I think, their relationship.

Intelligence is, I define pretty much as problem-solving ability.

And so that's quite a part.

I mean, we all know people who are conscious and not intelligent.

I mean, they don't necessarily go together.

Cognition is the taking in and processing of information from the world.

I think that's kind of how I define it.

Yeah.

And consciousness, I define simply as experience or subjective experience.