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	Self-replication, emergence, evolution, self-evolution, and sentience
		Sentience is a by-product of the complexity required for the ability to self-evolve.
		To self-evolve, there must be some sort of sentience or self-awareness (in other words, there must be a "direction" that is present that tells an organism its status in relation to its environment).
		Sentience is a by-product of (the complexity required for) the trait of self-evolution.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/science/self.html (685 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sentience
		Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousnessâ”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.
		Many scientists today consider sentience to be exclusive to homo-sapiens.This may be due to many religions that see the human being as the central creation of god, and thus the only creature capable of "truly thinking" (create art, use tools, invent things, etc..), and by the concept of sentience coming from a soul.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sentience (1270 words)

	Facts about topic: (Sentience) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness (An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation) — the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness (Awareness of your own individuality).
		The word sentient is often confused with the word sapient (additional info and facts about sapient), which can connotate knowledge (The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning), higher consciousness, or apperception (The process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience).
		Some science fiction uses the term sentience to describe a species ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) with human-like intelligence, but a more appropriate term is sapience.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/sentience.htm (471 words)

	CVCO: Overbooked - Motivation Analysis
		The sentience need's mid location in the competitive area suggests that the need is not as active in strongly competitive activities (striving for status and dominance) as it is in the development of skills and knowledge.
		If the sentience need is dislocated in the impersonal area it conflicts with the combative needs in that area making it hard for the person to express dissatisfactions when attempting to resolve personal-social conflicts.
		The dislocation of the sentience need in the noncompetitive area may indicate an unrealistic belief that the appreciation of beauty and harmony is opposed to competence and excellence.
	freenet.vcu.edu /education/literature/sentience.html (2545 words)

	Animal Sentience and the Evolution of Emotion
		New studies in animal sentience show that sheep can remember faces for up to two years, prairie dogs speak their own language, octopi disguise themselves by walking on two legs in order to escape predators, cows use tools and pigs can be devious and misleading to obtain food.
		On the other end, sentience is as complex as a young, healthy chimpanzee dying of a broken heart only a few weeks after the death of his mother.
		The debate over animal sentience is curiously nonexistent in indigenous cultures where human survival is intricately woven with the lives of animals.
	www.awionline.org /pubs/Quarterly/05_54_2/542p67.htm (1422 words)

	sympathetic sentience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sympathetic Sentience Is an interactive sound installation which generates complex patterns of rhythmic sound through the phenomenon of 'emergent complexity'.
		To achieve this, Sympathetic Sentience Two uses small microprocessors (PICs) to replace the hardware logic, this allows new versions of the code to be downloaded.
		In Sympathetic Sentience Three we continue to explore the possibilities opened by the use of microprocessors.
	www.ace.uci.edu /penny/works/symp_sent/sympathetic_sentience.html (525 words)

	Sentience: What is it?
		A cat is not a sentient being because it doesn’t use its internal structure to manifest external changes for a preconcieved cause.
		Sentient beings are evolving creatures able to adapt to their environment, shaping it purposefully to manifest their internal desires searching for a dream and fullfilling a destiny.
		That is, sentience is a faculty which enables the performance of certain actions which confer the ability to survive.
	deoxy.org /forum/showflat.pl?Cat=2&Board=hyperspace&Number=11543&... (5936 words)

	Sentience: The next moral dilemma Pt II - ZDNet UK News
		So, in summary, a sentient robot could in theory wander into a place of worship, light a candle and get on with praying with no fear of abuse or intolerance from religious leaders.
		In all likelihood the arrival of a new sentient species born of robotics will probably present itself as a droid performing a certain task that man cannot, or would rather not do.
		While Grand agrees that a sentient machine may toy with the idea of choice, and thus whether or not it actually wants to do the job it was designed for "it will probably be at a lesser extent than you might think.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /hardware/chips/0,39020354,2083943,00.htm (1174 words)

	VIDA 2.0 - Sympathetic Sentience Three
		Sympathetic Sentience Three is an interactive sound installation which generates complex patterns of rhythmic sound through ‘emergent complexity’.
		Sympathetic Sentience Three is an interactive sound installation which generates complex patterns of rhythmic sound through the phenomenon of 'emergent complexity'.
		While in Sympathetic Sentience One, only the rhythmic patterns were subject to change through the emergent complex behavior, in Sympathetic Sentience Two, other sound characteristics such as pitch and envelope are also subject to gradual change through the emergent complex process.
	www.fundacion.telefonica.com /at/vida/paginas/v2/epenny.html (906 words)

	Wikinfo \| Sentience
		However, sentience is often equated to sapience or equated to "having consciousness"; i.e., saying that something is sentient indicates that it is aware in an approximately human-like manner of what it is sensing.
		The sentience or non-sentience of animal species is a matter of debate, especially among animal rights activists and philosophers.
		The issue of sentience also frequently arises in science fictional contexts, in particular when considering the sentience of aliens who are not human or the sentience of robots or artificial intelligences, which are not biological.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sentience (271 words)

	Talk:Sentience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Principles that might apply are self sacrifice, self awareness, creativity, level of intelligence (and how it would be determined), ability to hope, and even to reget.
		I don't know of any agreed upon tests, although you seem to be talking about sapience instead of sentience.
		I disagree, the only shows I've seen that consider a robotic "species" to be sentient are those in which they have more than just intelligence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Sentience (690 words)

	Daniel Krimm - Sentience / LP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, SENTIENCE is a showcase of Krimm's considerable skills as both a bassist and composer.
		Bassist Dan Krimm cites Jaco Pastorius as a prime influence and that is evident from the opening bars of "Golden Bisque." Krimm's acrobatics on his instrument are the glue that holds these performances together.
		Apart from music that pleases the ear while soothing the soul, Sentience, on the Overtone Label, is underpinned by a drummer with longstanding area ties and a brother whose name you'd recognize.
	home.earthlink.net /~djkrimbo/portfolio/sentience.html (1463 words)

	Sentience: The next moral dilemma - ZDNet UK News
		Garrett's prudence is perhaps born of his strong religious convictions, which can weigh heavily people's thoughts about whether or not an artificial sentient being could ever hope to be seen as an autonomous person (not to be confused with becoming a human being).
		I still believe the category of human being would be very different, and one reason is that as human beings we have to move forward towards death and we have to learn how to face that.
		In the film Bicentennial Man in which Robin Williams plays Andrew, a sentient robot who looks, feels and thinks like a human but is still classed as a droid, the death issue provides the final step toward the revered status of "human".
	news.zdnet.co.uk /hardware/chips/0,39020354,2083942,00.htm (1008 words)

	Charles Ostman - Synthetic Sentience on Demand, as a Strategic Resource
		Synthetic sentience, as an engineerable process, is rapidly emmerging from the obscure realms of academic interest, or a narrowly defined range of industrial and military applications, and becoming translated into a viable, commercial commodity.
		Concepts which were once considered to be strictly confined to the wispy realms of science fiction are being translated into functional hardware and software components, which in turn are destined to become the "organistic subcomponents" of the global internet organism.
		Sentience, as definable in part by the "awareness" of one's self, can in some cases be measured by the defensive posturing and maneuvoring that a "synthetic entity" will employ on its own behalf.
	www.biota.org /ostman/sent2.htm (1885 words)

	Pro-Choice: Sentience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		L.W. Sumner has argued that "sentience" should be used as a criterion of what he calls "moral standing".
		During the early period of gestation the embryo lacks sentience.
		Toward the end of pregnancy the fetus is sentient.
	users.telerama.com /~jdehullu/abortion/abdis36.htm (136 words)

	Chapter 6
		We have speculated that self-assembling nanoelectronics could produce systems of sufficient complexity to bring about a threshold of consciousness and sentience, and we have argued that the technology is feasible.
		Consciousness: The first necessary condition for a man-made sentient system is that it be conscious, as sentience requires consciousness.
		The new sentient being may be the house one lives in or a briefing room in the Pentagon.
	www.ccwu.edu /Thesis_Moynihan/Chapter6.htm (6633 words)

	PLANET IN TRANSITION
		We are coming to realize that there is even a less basic form of sentience, and that is the sentience evidenced by plants who seem to be more aware of their environment than we had ever believed them to be.
		This least level of sentience is confined to awareness of environment, it may not include awareness of self, and it certainly doesn't include either need or the means to gratify those needs.
		Therefore the Cosmos is a venue for the attainment of coherence by incoherent sentience.
	www.parascience.org /planetin.htm (1553 words)

	Sentience (Vegan Outreach)
		Even more intriguing is the fact that machines are becoming more advanced every year, more “sentient” in terms of being able to sense, interact, and learn.
		“Sentience,” then, is not the same as being able to have ethically relevant conscious states (for a discussion of ethics and consciousness, see the Universal Ethics section of “
		The study of the neurology of consciousness indicates that the ability to have subjective experiences — such as suffering — is quite complex.
	www.veganoutreach.org /enewsletter/fish.html (810 words)

	Charles Ostman - Sentience on Demand, as an Online Commodity
		Synthetic environments, populated by user definable avatar entities which are the emotionally sentient extensions of the human users, will at some point in the future, represent the mainstream of "entertainment" content.
		These characters will possess the defacto equivalent of emotional sentience, and are the interactive audio/visual artifacts of self modifying code structures.
		In other words, the "power" is at the server node, where supercomputing capacity capable of supporting the extremely complex computational task handling associated with "synthetic sentience" rendering, dynamic environment deployment, and related processes are transparent to the individual user.
	www.biota.org /ostman/sent1.htm (5439 words)

	Sentience, Free Will and Self-Determination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even if we postulate that the switching mechanism is inherent within the very pattern of our DNA, that is, whenever certain evolutionary tags such as brain size, thumbs and binocular vision coincide the process automatically shifts toward sentience, then we are left trying to explain the intelligence of the process.
		Perhaps sentience has a self-regulating mechanism that guides evolution toward the optimum choices.
		Again, taking the minimalist view that this sentient evolution is entirely DNA hard wired, the fact remains that if it happened here, on Earth, then it must have happened elsewhere.
	www.sangraal.com /library/SS1.html (908 words)

	Sentience - Memory Alpha
		In 2365, Commander Bruce Maddox defined sentience as "intelligence, self-awareness, consciousness." (TNG: "The Measure of a Man") The question of sentience has been raised several times in concern with artificial lifeforms.
		The first known case of a sentient hologram may have occurred in 2364, when the Bynars created Minuet.
		The issue of holographic rights came to a head in 2377, when The Doctor attempted to publish a holonovel entitled "Photons Be Free." The holonovel was released by Broht and Forrester without consent by the author.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Sentience (344 words)

	PANPSYCHISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is somewhat akin to hylozoism, but in place of the thesis of the pervasiveness of life in nature substitutes the pervasiveness of sentience, experience or, in a broad sense, consciousness.
		Some see it as the best explanation of the emergence of consciousness in the universe to say that it is, in fact, universally present, and that the high-level consciousness of humans and animals is the product of special patterns of that low-level consciousness or feeling which is universally present.
		It simply holds that each ultimate unit of the physical world has a certain ‘charge’ of sentience, which is additional to its physical characteristics, and that in certain circumstances more complex units of nature receive their own individual ‘charge’ of sentience too.
	members.aol.com /NeoNoetics/PANPSYCHISM.html (1742 words)

	Read about Sentience at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Sentience and learn about Sentience here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The word sentient is often confused with the word
		The root of the confusion is that the word conscious has a number of different meanings in
		animal rights, sentience is commonly seen as the ability to experience
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Sentience (319 words)

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		While it's true that I AM the minimum standard of sentience, there are certainly things out there less sentient than I which are doing just fine all on their own.
		In the latter case, they of course are not a standard of sentience at all; in the former, we probably don't know them well enough to nominate them to ANY standard of sentience.
		A non-standard of sentience A non-standard of sentience is anybody who is NOT one of these standards of sentience.
	www.frivolity.com /teatime/Miscellaneous/standard_of_sentience.txt (1909 words)

	Siegel's Review of Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		First, what it is for a sentient being to sense is for it to employ two distinct capacities: one for representing places-at-times; the other for representing "features" (60, cf.
		The information that it's one and the same basketball traversing a single path is not given by sentience if sentience is limited to feature-placing.
		Given his commitment to the thesis that sentience is limited to feature-placing, Clark could grant that reidentifying moving basketballs is phenomenologically impressive only by distinguishing sensory phenomenology from that of other kinds, and by holding that the reidentification phenomenology is non-sensory.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~ssiegel/papers/Clark.html (1113 words)

	Prolife America Forums - Personhood, sentience, heartbeat, etc.
		Okay, some people believe a fetus isn't a person unless it's sentient, or even born for that matter.
		And, as you may know, from the dictionary, sentient means "conciousness".
		Sad thing is, on a republican group I'm on, some liberal chick thinks sentient means something else to herself...
	www.prolifeamerica.com /fusetalk/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=747&enterthread=y (872 words)

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