Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness — the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. The word sentient is often confused with the word sapience, which can connotate knowledge, higher consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusion is that the word ''conscious'' has a number of different meanings in English (language). (One can easily distinguish the two by looking at their Latin root (linguistics): ''sentire'', "to feel"; and ''sapere'', "to know".) ==Animal rights== In the philosophy of animal rights, sentience is commonly seen as the ability to experience suffering. The 18th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham raised the issue of animal suffering in ''An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation'': : ''The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor... What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"'' ==Artificial intelligence== The issue of sentience also frequently arises in science fiction stories describing robots or computers with artificial intelligence. Some science fiction uses the term ''sentience'' to describe a species with human-like intelligence, but a more appropriate term is sapience. ==Eastern religion== Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism recognize nonhuman beings as sentient beings. In Jainism and Hinduism, this is closely related to the concept of ahimsa, nonviolence toward other beings. In Mahayana Buddhism, which includes Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, the concept is related to the Bodhisattva, an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others. The first Bodhisattva vows of a Bodhisattva states: "Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them." Philosophy of mind Self
== Principles of Sentient Life == Is there a proposed set of principles that can help determine or define sentient life? Principles that might apply are self sacrifice, self awareness, creativity, level of intelligence (and how it would be determined), ability to hope, and even to reget. These were ideas that I thought might apply. :I don't know of any agreed upon tests, although you seem to be talking about sapience instead of sentience. Humans are included, but some (e.g., Descartes) think only humans have it! (See the great ape project for a different opinion.) User:Mshonle 01:46, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness — the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. The word sentient is often confused with the word sapience, which can connotate knowledge, higher consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusion is that the word ''conscious'' has a number of different meanings in English (language). (One can easily distinguish the two by looking at their Latin root (linguistics): ''sentire'', "to feel"; and ''sapere'', "to know".) ==Animal rights== In the philosophy of animal rights, sentience is commonly seen as the ability to experience suffering. The 18th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham raised the issue of animal suffering in ''An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation'': : ''The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor... What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but, "Can they suffer?"'' ==Artificial intelligence== The issue of sentience also frequently arises in science fiction stories describing robots or computers with artificial intelligence. Some science fiction uses the term ''sentience'' to describe a species with human-like intelligence, but a more appropriate term is sapience. ==Eastern religion== Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism recognize nonhuman beings as sentient beings. In Jainism and Hinduism, this is closely related to the concept of ahimsa, nonviolence toward other beings. In Mahayana Buddhism, which includes Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, the concept is related to the Bodhisattva, an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others. The first Bodhisattva vows of a Bodhisattva states: "Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them." Philosophy of mind Self
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== Principles of Sentient Life == Is there a proposed set of principles that can help determine or define sentient life? Principles that might apply are self sacrifice, self awareness, creativity, level of intelligence (and how it would be determined), ability to hope, and even to reget. These were ideas that I thought might apply. :I don't know of any agreed upon tests, although you seem to be talking about sapience instead of sentience. Humans are included, but some (e.g., Descartes) think only humans have it! (See the great ape project for a different opinion.) User:Mshonle 01:46, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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==COTW== Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status. == Philomathean Society == Greetings from a fellow obscure Philo. And thanks for correcting an embarrassing spelling error. User:Shimeru 02:17, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
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