Decapod sentience: Promising framework and evidence

Strong points of the target article by Crump et al. are that it offers clear criteria for judging whether decapods are sentient, an effective semi-quantitative grading system for this purpose, and an astute, critical review of the literature.It concludes plausibly that major subgroups of decapods are sentient.A minor problem is that it includes classical, Pavlovian learning as a marker of sentience along with the more valid marker of complex (e.g., operant) learning.Another minor problem is that it does not distinguish results that are negative because of likely absence of sentience from results that are negative because they have not yet been gathered.Future studies should explore how decapods are sentient with so few neurons in their nervous system (<100,000).