The long moment is addressed to the material world's "systems and embodiments" for study for sentience and for history.
With the emergence of life and, most of all, sentience, meaning took its place as part of the architecture of the cosmos.
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And it's really just a test to see if the machine has sentience or a humanlike consciousness.
Can a machine endowed with sentience be considered a living being?
How many of these worlds have watched life evolve to sentience and technological prowess?
Unfortunately, we're not very good judges of sentience, even in ourselves.
From ours (or any other sentience in the vast universe), it's the most important thing that ever happened.
And at least one bot has sentience, distancing the show from its complicated loops, and low emotional stakes.
Several comments criticize this piece for failing to explicitly address sentience (capacity for suffering).
That memes can also adapt to changing times and embody efficiencies as well, make them even more powerful and useful to humans whose most successful trait is sentience.
A review of the literature does suggest, however, that there is no serious possibility of sentience emerging until a relatively advanced stage of the pregnancy.
The idea that nonhuman animals have moral status is based on folk psychological concepts like sentience and consciousness.
But despite our confidence in the consciousness and sentience of animals, however, not everyone is convinced that many animals have these capacities.
One reason was that the focus of research remained on species-typical behaviors rather than on individual differences, let alone questions of personhood, sentience, or rights.
Sentience or perception may be relevant to identifying agents as experiencers whereas causation may be most relevant to identifying agents as actors.
