Word of the Day: sentient

[Em in Ohio]

Cheat Sheet: (From Wikipedia)
"Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. ... In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as "qualia"). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that require respect and care."

 

[Rosemarie]

Acknowledging that all animals are sentient beings is surely a valid reason for not eating them.

 

[Em in Ohio]

My unanswerable question: Will Earthlings ever find sentient life on another world? Not in my lifetime.

 

[jerry old]

Agee's 'A Mother's Tale' is the best argument for who or what is sentient.

He confounds the definition of sentience, by making you think.

 

[debodun]

You want us to use sentience in a sentient sentence?

 

[Kaila]

Staring at the eyes and the actions, of an unfamiliar animal, bird, or other species,
sometimes even peculiar or particular insects or sea beings,
leads into wondering about the creature's sentience.

 

[Em in Ohio]

Agee's 'A Mother's Tale' is the best argument for who or what is sentient.

He confounds the definition of sentience, by making you think.

Thanks - I had to look it up, but that's part of the appeal of this site. Old brains need exercise!

 

[Matrix]

Plants are not sentient beings, some people don't agree though.

 

[Em in Ohio]

Plants are not sentient beings, some people don't agree though.

Does this mean that I am wasting my time talking to them? (It's a cover-up technique for when I'm actually just talking to myself!)