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| | Sentience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism recognize nonhuman beings as sentient beings. | | | Many scientists today consider sentience to be exclusive to homo-sapiens.This may be due to many religions that see the human being as the central creation of god, and thus the only creature capable of "truly thinking" (create art, use tools, invent things, etc..), and by the concept of sentience coming from a soul. | | | The first vow of a Bodhisattva states: "Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them." |
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| | Sentience: The next moral dilemma Pt II - ZDNet UK News |
| | But the term "sentience" denotes empowerment not only of the mind, but of the will. | | | Consensus within the scientific community does not exist but those who believe sentience is achievable suggest it could be as much as a century away. | | | So, in summary, a sentient robot could in theory wander into a place of worship, light a candle and get on with praying with no fear of abuse or intolerance from religious leaders. |
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| | Chapter 6 |
| | The Buddhists may be the most immediately prepared, as it is written in the Dharma to honor and respect all sentient beings. | | | Acceptance of the argument that synthetic sentience will one day be fact raises many sociological questions for which there are no immediate answers. | | | Nolo Imago Dei being will become a member of the church. |
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http://www.ccwu.edu/Thesis_Moynihan/Chapter6.htm
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| | Animal Sentience and the Evolution of Emotion |
| | The reason for this has to do with coming to terms with the inhumanity of the Western world. | | | A landmark conference was held last month in London with the hopes of creating just this kind of sea change. | | | Fouts is a pioneer of communicating with chimpanzees using sign language. |
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| | FictionPress.Com Story : The Sentience : Dawn of Darkness |
| | Fiction » Sci-Fi » The Sentience : Dawn of Darkness | | | “But if the Manil can govern the minds connected by the Sentience, as you say, then why do we need the Senians?” | | | FictionPress.Com Story : The Sentience : Dawn of Darkness |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Sentience: Companion to Reason: Books |
| | Part I of the book deals first with the need for synthesizing the hitherto separate "truth-finding" knowledge traditions: the third-personal scientific-technological, and the first-personal humanistic-wisdom tradition. | | | The second part of the book addresses the pragmatic consequences of the proposed mind reality. | | | It focuses on the pragmatic role of sentient experience and its unceasing and inseparable interplay with the exercise of reason. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1853437034
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| | Charles Ostman - Sentience on Demand, as an Online Commodity |
| | That's not to say, however, that this is not possible. | | | What if sentience could be "hired" on demand, as an avatar presence? | | | However, just as with evolutionary personality growth in humans, the emotional components of the avatar personality would tend to generate their own nuanced predilections over time. |
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http://www.biota.org/ostman/sent1.htm
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| | Wikinfo Sentience |
| | In the Mahayana form of Buddhism, sentience is traditionally considered a requirement for a being to possess buddha nature. | | | Buddhists are expected to show compassion to all sentient beings, which include worms, as illustrated in an episode in the film Seven Years in Tibet in which the Dalai Lama organises the building of a cinema in Lhasa. | | | Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available. |
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| | Sentience: What is it? |
| | That is, sentience is a faculty which enables the performance of certain actions which confer the ability to survive. | | | This is why I believe the Genesis myth is metaphor for sentience. | | | Sentient beings are evolving creatures able to adapt to their environment, shaping it purposefully to manifest their internal desires searching for a dream and fullfilling a destiny. |
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| | Nick Sentience and Ali Wilson - Interrelationships - Quality Trax | | | Nick Sentience and Ali Wilson - Critical Phaze - Quality Trax | | | With everything in place he proceeded to blitz his way through the dance scene where in under 2 years he released numerous trax, remixed most of the major labels and artists (see remixography), was voted no. 74 in the world in DJ magazine and nominated as 'best newcomer' in 'Muzik' magazine dance awards. |
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| | Talk:Sentience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | I think I am looking for some combined definition sentient and sapient life. | | | But then (too) many things can be described as sentient. | | | It seems the general logic is 'if it has emotions, it's sentient'. |
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| | sentience - definition of sentience by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Not a thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate, so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a vitality of its own. | | | sentience - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sentience
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| | CIWF Trust - From Darwin to Dawkins |
| | Her strong belief was that we should not assume we know what it is like to be another sentient being and we should let the animal voice be heard. | | | Professor John Webster from the University of Bristol presented the view that there is a contract between animals and humans, and that while sentience was a vital consideration, it is the responsibility of humans to define the standards in which we keep them according to our perception of their needs. | | | The conference was titled “From Darwin to Dawkins: the science and implications of animal sentience” and it was only appropriate that the first speaker was Professor Marian Dawkins from the University of Oxford. |
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| | Siegel's Review of Clark |
| | Feature-placing languages as P. Strawson describes them (Strawson 1963, chapter 7, section 1) steer clear of predication altogether: "It is raining here" does not mean that a place is raining; it is silent on what, if anything, is doing the raining. | | | Although Clark says that Strawson's account inspires his theory of sentience (75), he repeatedly says that sensory systems attribute qualities to places. | | | Given his commitment to the thesis that sentience is limited to feature-placing, Clark could grant that reidentifying moving basketballs is phenomenologically impressive only by distinguishing sensory phenomenology from that of other kinds, and by holding that the reidentification phenomenology is non-sensory. |
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| | This is a person who has the most reasonable claims to being BOTH minimum and maximum standards of sentience. | | | While it's true that I AM the minimum standard of sentience, there are certainly things out there less sentient than I which are doing just fine all on their own. | | | As such, he can actually be dismembered and be in many places at once. |
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| | Sentience - Memory Alpha |
| | It seems the law has no set definition of sentience for biological lifeforms. | | | The first known case of a sentient hologram may have occurred in 2364, when the Bynars created Minuet. | | | In 2365, Commander Bruce Maddox defined sentience as "intelligence, self-awareness, consciousness." (TNG: "The Measure of a Man") The question of sentience has been raised several times in concern with artificial lifeforms. |
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| | Sentience Vinyl Records |
| | Hard House - Year: 2001 - Catno: HHM47 | | | Hard House - Year: 2002 - Catno: HHM816 | | | Stock Information: All these Records are In-Stock - Artist / Title / Comments / Label / Year / Catno / Price |
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| | Geek.com Geek News - Machines and sentience |
| | Second, and the more interesting point, is that the debate over intelligence and sentience is at this point mainly a debate over definition. | | | I guess in a more Cartesian sense you could assert the Cogito and have it be consistent with both Putnam and Searle, but that is netiher here nor there. | | | For those who disagree, I implore you to show me a satisfactory definition of such. |
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http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Nov/bch20031112022629.htm
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| | Sentience Systems |
| | Our web development office is located in Mumbai, India. | | | We firmly believe that the key, to delivering consummate solutions, is understanding you and your needs in a way that helps us to give you services, that will revolutionize the way you work and do wonders to your performance. | | | And at Sentience Systems, we endeavour to do just that; aided by that little magic word called ‘PERCEPTION’. |
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| | CVCO: Overbooked - Motivation Analysis |
| | The dislocation of the sentience need in the noncompetitive area may indicate an unrealistic belief that the appreciation of beauty and harmony is opposed to competence and excellence. | | | Some people place so much emphasis on the sentience need that they are overly sensitive and fastidious and demand that all situations be harmonious and beautiful. | | | There seem to be fewer personality problems related to the sentience need than there are for most of the other needs. |
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| | Daniel Krimm - Sentience / LP |
| | Daniel Krimm - Sentience / LP Vinyl LP, released July 1986 | | | Check out Dan's swing factor on "Mordor," his melodic lines on "Dolphin Dance" and his evocative playing on the modal "Spirit Dance." This is a gifted bassist who bears watching. | | | The seven original compositions here represent different periods in Krimm's growth from 1978 to 1981, and his accomplished playing on them is enough to make even Jaco sit up and take notice. |
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| | Prolife America Forums - Personhood, sentience, heartbeat, etc. |
| | What you need to remember is that proaborts use the legal definition of person to exclude the unborn from that category. | | | Okay, some people believe a fetus isn't a person unless it's sentient, or even born for that matter. | | | Choicers say abortion is okay because the unborn aren't aware when you kill them. |
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| | PANPSYCHISM |
| | Panpsychism is also sometimes associated with some form of absolute idealism according to which all things are included in one all-embracing consciousness in a manner which displays itself as their containment in a single spatiotemporal system. | | | The second argument for panpsychism favours the different conclusion that consciousness is the real ‘stuff’ of the physical universe (though this may be further reinforced by the first argument). | | | Some see it as the best explanation of the emergence of consciousness in the universe to say that it is, in fact, universally present, and that the high-level consciousness of humans and animals is the product of special patterns of that low-level consciousness or feeling which is universally present. |
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| | Self-replication, emergence, evolution, self-evolution, and sentience |
| | To self-evolve, there must be some sort of sentience or self-awareness (in other words, there must be a "direction" that is present that tells an organism its status in relation to its environment). | | | In other words, I believe the reason why we have the complex brains we have today with all its abilities is so we can make a statement about performing genetic engineering on ourselves. | | | Every since John von Neumann came up with the notion of a Universal Computer and Universal Constructor for self-replication in the 1940s (before the notion of a "gene" was discovered!), I've been fascinated by the issue of self-replication. |
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| | Search Results for sentience - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Writers in the 17th and 18th centuries produced many tales of... | | | The soul had originally been thought to reside in the liver, an organ to which no other function could, at that time, be... | | | Since human beings are the only known form of fully sentient life, any encounter with nonhuman intelligence is necessarily speculative. |
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| | Charles Ostman - Synthetic Sentience on Demand, as a Strategic Resource |
| | Sentience, as definable in part by the "awareness" of one's self, can in some cases be measured by the defensive posturing and maneuvoring that a "synthetic entity" will employ on its own behalf. | | | Concepts which were once considered to be strictly confined to the wispy realms of science fiction are being translated into functional hardware and software components, which in turn are destined to become the "organistic subcomponents" of the global internet organism. | | | To the extent that this type of defensive behavior can be codified into a functioning, evolvable, even predatory entity, has recently been deployed beyond merely the realms of academic research, or even military applications development. |
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| | PLANET IN TRANSITION |
| | We are coming to realize that there is even a less basic form of sentience, and that is the sentience evidenced by plants who seem to be more aware of their environment than we had ever believed them to be. | | | The most basic form of sentience is the simple awareness that one is, and that one has needs, and wants to gratify those needs. | | | The most interesting thing we know about that "energy" is that it is also, at the time of the "Big Bang" an inchoate form of intelligence. |
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| | sentient, sentience, animal sentience, animal emotions, animal feelings, animal thinking |
| | As for man, of course, he doesn’t even consider himself an animal — which, considering the way he considers them, is probably, all things considered, the most considerate thing about him... | | | We are abusive when the consequences of what we do, or choose not to do, harms our own or another sentient being's physical or mental well-being. | | | But if cognitive thought means the state or process of knowing while conscious thought means you are aware of something within yourself, what is the difference?... |
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| | Foetal Sentience |
| | Those who claim that "sentience is a function of the cerebral cortex"2 seem to overlook this scientific evidence. | | | In this type of situation, it is generally required that the burden of proof (of non-sentience) rests on the person who is undertaking the action. | | | Nevertheless, current information suggests that many functions which were originally assumed to be exclusively located in the cerebral cortex can be undertaken by lower centres in the brain. |
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Animals 'are moral beings' |
| | In a briefing paper, CIWF says: "There is evidence that some animals do have some level of morality and some concern over other animals. | | | The claim of scientific backing for the concept of animal sentience has its critics, who say it is simple anthropomorphism, the projection of human traits onto animals. | | | He told BBC News Online: "Animal sentience has been a matter of debate down the centuries. |
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| | VIDA 2.0 - Sympathetic Sentience Three |
| | Several iterations of the work have been built. | | | The original goal was to attempt to realise a project which manifested true emergent complex behavior, using the simplest possible technology. | | | While in Sympathetic Sentience One, only the rhythmic patterns were subject to change through the emergent complex behavior, in Sympathetic Sentience Two, other sound characteristics such as pitch and envelope are also subject to gradual change through the emergent complex process. |
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| | Sentience, Free Will and Self-Determination |
| | We apprehend this mechanism as God, or fate, or even as extra-terrestrial biologists when it intervenes to re-direct us toward sentience and self determination. | | | Again, taking the minimalist view that this sentient evolution is entirely DNA hard wired, the fact remains that if it happened here, on Earth, then it must have happened elsewhere. | | | Even if we postulate that the switching mechanism is inherent within the very pattern of our DNA, that is, whenever certain evolutionary tags such as brain size, thumbs and binocular vision coincide the process automatically shifts toward sentience, then we are left trying to explain the intelligence of the process. |
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| | Pro-Choice: Sentience |
| | L.W. Sumner has argued that "sentience" should be used as a criterion of what he calls "moral standing". | | | It has moral standing and its good/harm must be considered. | | | It therefore lacks moral standing and has no rights that can be violated. |
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| | The Science and Implications of Animal Sentience - TheFishSite.com |
| | Delegates from around the globe attend the Compassion in World Farming International Conference. | | | On the 17th and 18th March 2005, researchers and academics from around the world gathered in London to discuss advances in the field of research into animal sentience. | | | Speaking at the conference, Professor Marian Dawkins of Oxford University warned of the danger of defining animal welfare "in terms of what well-meaning people think animals want or what pleases people rather than allowing animals to speak for themselves. |
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| | The Shattered Hand |
| | Funny how some people actually believe MF is built to win... | | | Stop inviting people and referring them to us! We have 11 unaddressed app's, its becoming impossible to sort through them all. | | | I would like to wish a very happy birthday to Twiz, may he have many, many more and kill lots of noobs today with his FoC Spike. |
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| | Sentience |
| | This not a sentient because it no verb(s). | | | In fact, I had a friendly chat with my quicksort the other day. | | | Has there been any significant advances lately in the area of sentient algorithms? |
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| | The Sentience |
| | "The Sentience" is an intense, high-action rollercoaster graphic novel that not only tells the story of one man's journey from nobody to Earth's last hope, but also presents quite a twist. | | | With the help of his partner, Bailey Jones, he sets out to find out if he has what it takes to not only stay alive, but also save Earth from total annihilation. | | | Buried within the pages of this book are clues to finding a hidden "treasure" located somewhere within the borders of America. |
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| | Mathmatics of Sentience and Spirituality |
| | There is only one constant when seen from the perspective of the sentient self: truth. | | | Sentience is a system which includes itself as a variable. | | | Or more accurately, since the self is not a constant variable but a system, perhaps this should be written as: |
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| | Sentience (Vegan Outreach) |
| | “Sentience,” then, is not the same as being able to have ethically relevant conscious states (for a discussion of ethics and consciousness, see the Universal Ethics section of “ | | | Although we associate the idea of sensing with conscious awareness, this is not strictly true. | | | The appearance of awareness — even the ability to interact — is not the same as the actual ability to suffer. |
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| | The Saga of Ryzom - An Atys First by Atysian Sentience |
| | For the lands of the Matis applicants should search out: Sumanaptra and Lirael to join. | | | -->Atysian Sentience have braved the prime roots and journeys between continents, we now stake our claim. | | | Matis, Fyros and Zorai have been linked, under Atysian Sentience ALL races shall flourish. |
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| | Welcome to Sentience |
| | If this is your first time being fully sentient there are many things you must learn about life, none of which are here. | | | However for those of your who have been fully sentient for a while, or at least are very good at faking it, this site’s for you! | | | Some of them are still under construction, so bear with us. |
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| | Sentient Times June/July 2002 issue |
| | Once plant researchers began to ack-nowledge plants as sentient, aware, even communicative, it followed that they would soon be planting their sensors directly into the soil. | | | As a society we find it easier to attribute consciousness to humans alone, while even “Nature lovers” usually grant sentience only to those “higher life forms” that most obviously inspire, influence and animate our beings. | | | The secret to the understanding and protection of any element or aspect of Nature lies in our subjective identification with it, and the degree to which we recognize or “grant” it sentience: the ability to feel. |
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| | SENTIENCE |
| | The high rate of false matches meant that the system wasn't very useful except for being able to tell whether there was a large object, such as a person, sitting in front of the robot. | | | The second version of Sentience, developed in 2004/5, used a more traditional style of algorithm. | | | In the Sentience system when local orientations are calculated inevitably there is always some margin of error. |
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| | OUP: Theory of Sentience: Clark |
| | A sample of this book is available in PDF format. | | | Drawing on the findings of current neuroscience, Clark proposes and defends the hypothesis that the various modalities of sensation share a generic form that he calls 'feature-placing'. | | | 'A Theory of Sentience is as valuable for the questions it opens up as for the positive theory it puts forward. |
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| | Stoic Philosophy of Mind [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The Stoics held that the soul is nourished from the exhalations from the passive elements. | | | Air and fire, on the other hand, are active and closely connected with sentience and intelligence. | | | Earth and water are heavy, passive elements, dominated by the passive principle. |
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| | Sentience and Circuitry: Meat is Memory |
| | I think the human species is approaching a point where the need to create (in the biological sense) will be superseded by the sheer pleasure of thought itself. | | | But our slavish attachment to the physical world and all of its superficial excess will be left behind as we plunge forward, breaking down the perceived barriers between mind and brain, thought and flesh, sentience and circuitry. | | | The advent of artificial intelligence will likely result in a mentational revolution of exponential magnitude. |
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| | ipedia.com: Thinking Article |
| | Thinking (aka Thought) is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. | | | Thinking involves manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisionss. | | | Concepts akin to thought are sentience, consciousness, idea and imagination. |
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