Sentience and consciousness -- Foothills -- The touch of light -- Blythe spirits -- What the frog's eye tells the monkey's brain -- Blindsight -- Sight unseen -- Red sky at night -- Nature's psychologists -- On the track of sensations -- Evolving sentience -- The road taken -- The phenomenal self -- Theoretical misprisions -- Coming to be: sentience and body sense -- Sentience all the way down? -- Mapping the landscape -- Getting warmer -- Testing, testing -- Qualiaphilia -- The self in action -- Taking stock -- Machina ex deo -- Ethical imperatives.