Sentience

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Grey's Lexicon

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Singular Infinity ∞ Cosmic Balance ∞ Entropic viscosity ∞ Nucleophonon ∞ Quantum Whiteness ∞ Dimple in Time ∞ Sapience ∞ Sentience ∞ Quantum Plenum ∞ Topology of Now ∞ Fibonacci Knots ∞ Cognitive syncopation ∞

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GPT-4

Sentience

Sentience is the capacity of a being to have subjective perceptual experiences, or in other words, the ability to experience sensations or feelings. 

This concept is often used in discussions about the rights of animals, artificial intelligence, and other non-human entities.

Sentience implies a certain level of consciousness, including the ability to feel pain, pleasure, and other sensations. 

However, the specific parameters of what constitutes sentience can be a matter of debate among philosophers, cognitive scientists, and other researchers. It is essentially the ability to have subjective experiences and feelings.

Humans not only consider themselves to be sentient, but also sapient. These two terms are related but distinct:

Sentience, as discussed earlier, refers to the ability to perceive and experience feelings or sensations. All animals with a nervous system have some level of sentience. For example, a dog can feel pain and pleasure, fear and joy.

Sapience

Sapience, apart from sentience, is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with judgment. It's associated with higher cognitive functions such as reasoning, problem-solving, self-awareness, knowledge accumulation, and the ability to understand and predict the consequences of actions. 

'Homo sapiens' literally translates to 'wise man' in Latin.

While sentience is about feeling, sapience is about thinking. In other words, humans consider themselves to not only be capable of experiencing the world (sentience) but also understanding and making complex decisions within it (sapience).