Measuring and quantifying
sentience

The Center for Sentience Research (CSR) is an independent Swiss non-profit building the foundational framework for measuring awareness across substrates. Bridging physics, neuroscience, and philosophy, we investigate three domains: biological minds (morphological intelligence and cellular decision-making), digital minds (whether and how sentience could emerge in non-biological systems), and qualia (the physical structure of experience and valence). This work is urgent. As AI systems increasingly present as sentient and as science reveals awareness-like properties in unexpected biological substrates, society needs rigorous, substrate-independent methods to evaluate such claims. Without scientific foundations, these questions will be decided by intuition, commercial interest, or ideology. CSR exists to provide the measurement frameworks before that happens.