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Topic: Are you sentient?
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BlueRoamer Knowflake Posts: 3944 From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 22, 2005 12:31 AM
Are all humans sentient? Is a dolphin sentient? An ape? A parrot? A dog? A frog? A fish? A flea? A plant? A paramecium? A rock? Are YOU?Where do you draw the line? What is sentience? IP: Logged |
Johnny Knowflake Posts: 2056 From: Colorado, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted October 22, 2005 12:34 AM
Isn't sentience like, the ability to recognize self, or something?Dunno. IP: Logged |
lotusheartone Knowflake Posts: 238 From: MOther & Father GOd Registered: Feb 2008
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posted October 22, 2005 12:47 AM
Sentient-of or capable of feeling; conscious also see senseso anything that has senses, or can feel Love and Light to ALL IP: Logged |
Johnny Knowflake Posts: 2056 From: Colorado, USA Registered: Nov 2004
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posted October 22, 2005 12:59 AM
What about the consciousness part, LH1? A lot of things can "sense" and "feel", but lack consciousness. Sensing and feeling are pretty universal among animals, plants, and even some robots, but consciousness is pretty rare.So yeah, I wouldn't think that it would be accurate to call a flea or a paramecium sentient. IP: Logged |
BlueRoamer Knowflake Posts: 3944 From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 22, 2005 01:51 AM
sen·tience Audio pronunciation of "sentience" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (snshns, -sh-ns) n. 1. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness. 2. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought. con·scious·ness Audio pronunciation of "consciousness" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (knshs-ns) n. 1. The state or condition of being conscious. 2. A sense of one's personal or collective identity, including the attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or group: Love of freedom runs deep in the national consciousness. 3. 1. Special awareness or sensitivity: class consciousness; race consciousness. 2. Alertness to or concern for a particular issue or situation: a movement aimed at raising the general public's consciousness of social injustice. 4. In psychoanalysis, the conscious. Even in the dictionary it's vaguely defined! IP: Logged |
Gemini Nymph Knowflake Posts: 2216 From: Registered: Jul 2004
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posted October 22, 2005 06:36 AM
BR, what gives? You having some kind of crisis that's made you inquiring lately? Anyhow, sentience is a term that has been used to define something that isn't really defineable in a definitive way, at least by the human mind. We use words int his manner all teh time - it's just we are so presumptious, as humans are prone to be, that we think because we have a word for soemthing we think we must actually understand it. LOL. Sentience is a mystery and by mystery I mean in the philsoophical sense - something which, in its fullest sense or nature, is beyond what our limited minds can grasp. We can see enough of a mystery to know it exists and it's real, but we can't see the whole shabang to really know it completely and thoroughly. Of course this begs the question - do we really know anything completely and thoroughly? Or is everything we think we know only one facet of a greater mystery? Hmmm....
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sue g Knowflake Posts: 8591 From: former land of the leprechaun Registered: Sep 2004
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posted October 22, 2005 07:00 AM
Great questions BR....I always thought you were a highly deveoped being........ and YES YES YES I am "one of them".....I FEEL....and SENSE all the time.....more than I should maybe at times........ And no GN he isnt going thro a crisis....he is moving up to the next level girl......he is as usual seeing all to clearly....a vibrational shift.... Love to you BR Sue xxx
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BlueRoamer Knowflake Posts: 3944 From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 22, 2005 02:03 PM
I sense that in you too, Sue. Your posts radiate compassion and clarity.GN, chock it up to pluto sitting right on my natal neptune? I feel that among humans, even, there are different levels of sentience. Some humans seem almost on the level of animals, whereas others, well, you know. IP: Logged |
sue g Knowflake Posts: 8591 From: former land of the leprechaun Registered: Sep 2004
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posted October 22, 2005 02:29 PM
Thanks BR......that a wonderful thing to hear.....God knows there are enough cold and unfeeling ones out there....ugh....makes me shudder....cant stand that myself...... Hope youre well and happy...good to see you posting.. God bless love Sue xxx xxx IP: Logged |
Iqhunk Knowflake Posts: 2132 From: Chennai Registered: Oct 2005
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posted October 23, 2005 06:14 AM
Sentience: Ability to make a joke and laugh, even at yourself. No animal I know of can crack a joke or understand a joke and laugh. Least of all at itself.
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sue g Knowflake Posts: 8591 From: former land of the leprechaun Registered: Sep 2004
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posted October 23, 2005 11:11 AM
Oh in that case I am definately one........hahahaha......I laugh at myself every day, thats a very Irish thing too.......a pity more cant do it hey ???xxx IP: Logged |
TheEvolution Knowflake Posts: 715 From: Mumbai, India Registered: Aug 2005
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posted October 23, 2005 12:40 PM
Definitions of sentient on the Web: * endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence * consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * 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 sapient, 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. (One can easily distinguish the two by looking at their Latin roots: sentire, "to feel"; and sapere, "to know".) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient * Self-aware, choice-making consciousness. Humans and cetaceans (dolphins and whales) are the two sentient species on earth. www.summerjoy.com/Glossary.html * Something that can feel, or experience some form of emotion. www.reasoned.org/glossary.htm * (sen·ti·ent) (sen¢she-[schwa]nt) [L. sentiens] able to feel; sensitive; having sensation or feeling. www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_s_08zPzhtm * 1: responsive to or conscious of sense impressions 2: aware biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/bio3/2000projects/poirier_a_lloyd_t/Glossary.html IP: Logged |