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what exactaly does SENTIENT life mean?

  • 06.20.2006 11:39 AM PDT
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Anything that lives or breathes.

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  • 06.20.2006 11:40 AM PDT

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Thinking. It knows that it is alive.
sentient

sentient [sénsh’nt, -shi ənt]
adj
1. conscious: capable of feeling and perception
a sentient being
2. responding with feeling: capable of responding emotionally rather than intellectually
[Mid-17th century. From Latin sentient- , present participle stem of sentire ‘to feel’.]
-sentiently, adv

  • 06.20.2006 11:41 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Use your head. The one on your shoulders. No really, just try. Please?

˙sɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɥʇıʍ pooƃ os ʇou ɯ,ı 'ǝɹǝɥ ʇǝƃ sıɥʇ pıp ʍoɥ 'lol

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anything that lives or breathes

...and thinks...

  • 06.20.2006 11:41 AM PDT
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YOU MEAN LIKE A LITTLE BUG WOULDNT DIE???!!!???

  • 06.20.2006 11:43 AM PDT

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Posted by: hommas
YOU MEAN LIKE A LITTLE BUG WOULDNT DIE???!!!???

What exactly are you asking?

  • 06.20.2006 11:43 AM PDT
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A bug lives and breaths doesnt it?

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bugs dont think so would they die?

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ok i get it so plants wouldnt die...unless it kills things that breath in carbondioxide?

  • 06.20.2006 11:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: hommas
bugs dont think so would they die?

They do think at least at some level. At a certain level even a flea thinks though it maky not be on the same level as us. Are you in the right part of the form?

  • 06.20.2006 11:46 AM PDT
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Bugs do think. They think about eating, flying, and moving. Sentient life doesnt mean one or the other. Sentient=living,breathing and thinking

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  • 06.20.2006 11:46 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

oops I was talking balls :)

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  • 06.20.2006 11:46 AM PDT
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To put this out there, from now on Forerunners=Humans

  • 06.20.2006 11:46 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Use your head. The one on your shoulders. No really, just try. Please?

˙sɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɥʇıʍ pooƃ os ʇou ɯ,ı 'ǝɹǝɥ ʇǝƃ sıɥʇ pıp ʍoɥ 'lol

Human and some non-human animals are sentient beings, meaning there is a great deal of the animal world that is left outside what we understand to be sentient. Living and breathing does not define sentient, it is the ability to feel and perceive.
Sapience is the ability of self awareness, which is not required to be sentient.
This is a relevant and meaningful link

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  • 06.20.2006 11:48 AM PDT
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dictionary

  • 06.20.2006 11:48 AM PDT

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dictionary

My fisrst post is a dictionery definition.

  • 06.20.2006 11:49 AM PDT
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humans and covenent and so on and so forth

  • 06.20.2006 11:50 AM PDT
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That's why you misspelled first?

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I HAVE A IDEA Y DONT ALL HUMANS TURN INTO TREES THEN WE WONT DIE????

  • 06.20.2006 11:51 AM PDT
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Sentient means awareness. It does not necessarily mean organic life. An Artificial Intelligence like Cortana is sentient, even though she is not organically alive. Insects are living organisms, as are plants, but that does not imply they are sentient. Usually, we only classify ourselves (humans) as being sentient, even though other mammals like apes and dolphins exhibit awareness.

  • 06.20.2006 11:52 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Use your head. The one on your shoulders. No really, just try. Please?

˙sɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɥʇıʍ pooƃ os ʇou ɯ,ı 'ǝɹǝɥ ʇǝƃ sıɥʇ pıp ʍoɥ 'lol

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I HAVE A IDEA Y DONT ALL HUMANS TURN INTO TREES THEN WE WONT DIE????

In any case, I think you would be safe if the Halos were activated.

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  • 06.20.2006 11:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: xXSm00thi3Xx
That's why you misspelled first?

No I misspelled first because I hit the wrong key on my keyboard. Do you have a problem with this?

  • 06.20.2006 11:54 AM PDT
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LIKE THE PIGGIES IN Speaker For The Dead thats what we should do

  • 06.20.2006 11:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: xXSm00thi3Xx
That's why you misspelled first?

No I misspelled first because I hit the wrong key on my keyboard. Do you have a problem with this?



No i just thought it was funny that you were talking about dictionaries and misspelled "first"

  • 06.20.2006 11:57 AM PDT