Consciousness is not sentience, and if it's all semantics I don't care but if people are going to make moral arguments using this conflation between the two then I have a problem. As it says in the article, sentience is roughly the ability to feel valenced emotions (good/bad). Consciousness is many things, but importantly the ability to feel qualia, experiencing what feels like the 'blueness' of blue, for example.
It's totally possible that all sorts of life forms are conscious. I just think to focus on sentience and call it consciousness is silly.
Yes the word 'vaccine' seems misleading to me as well, as people tend to think of vaccinations as ways to prevent contagious illness. I think immune therapy is a much better term.
> The cancer vaccine: Moderna and pharma giant Merck are developing an mRNA-based cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157 (V940), for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed.
The notification is separate from the message. It absolutely is MITM, just for the notifications, which are messages themselves with real content (you have received a message from so-and-so).
Is it because they would be focused on more efficient sources of food like mice instead?