( The Duke Chronicle)īut still, Blame! has one of the most fascinating premises for a post-apocalypse I’ve seen: It takes place after cities become so connected they literally gain sentience, deem humanity an infestation, and declare them illegal. Yet pregnant sows are still often kept in. Pigs, chickens and fish are widely considered sentient already. In France in the 1930’s, francophone African intellectuals who greatly disapproved of France’s colonialism believed that Africans needed a collective identity, one founded on principles of sentience, independence, and a holistic view of Black bodies as significant, especially in the fields of literature and intellectual thought. Of course, the sentience bill will not solve any animal welfare problem by itself. Note that sentience is often misused in place of the word sapience. The word sapience is derived from the Latin word sapientia, which means intelligence or discernment. Sapience only describes a living thing that is able to think.

The scientific name for modern man is Homo sapiens. Sapience means the ability to think, the capacity for intelligence, the ability to acquire wisdom. The word sentience is often misused to mean a creature that thinks.

The word sentience is derived from the Latin word sentientem, which means feeling. Any living thing that has some degree of consciousness is sentient, including insects, lizards, dogs, dolphins and human beings. Send us feedback about these examples.Sentience means the ability to feel things, the ability to perceive things. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'sentient.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023 In other words, pearls are just trash that have been excessively protected by a barely sentient sea creature-hardly something with inherent worth or value. 2023 Pigs, chickens, and fish are already widely recognized as sentient. 2023 This is because everything offered up by GPT is a reflection of us, mediated by algorithms that have been fed enormous amounts of material and both the algorithms and the material were created by actual sentient human beings. Davey Alba,, 14 June 2022 So, when computers seem sentient, people tend to trust them, blindly. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 July 2022 But throughout the weekend and on Monday, researchers pushed back on the notion that the AI was truly sentient, saying the evidence only indicated a highly capable system of human mimicry, not sentience itself. researcher who claimed that Google’s LaMDA chatbot had become sentient, according to the newsletter Big Technology. 2023 The technology giant has fired Blake Lemoine, the A.I. Nir Eisikovits, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023 The technology’s uncanny writing ability has surfaced some old questions – until recently relegated to the realm of science fiction – about the possibility of machines becoming conscious, self-aware or sentient. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. Recent Examples on the Web Still, the findings suggest that fish could be sentient, like humans and other species, even if their sentience is different from that of other creatures.

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