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sapient

British pronunciation/sˈapiənt/
American pronunciation/sˈæpiənt/
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acutely insightful and wise

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1Maybe all sentient things should have rights, maybe only sapient ones should, maybe natural rights are a delusion, but science can’t answer that one.
2Raw processing power is mostly irrelevant unless it turns out that such things inevitably become sentient and sapient above a certain threshold.
3We might expect grey goo to evolve more complexity with time too, as green goo apparently did, even to the point of sentient and sapient lifeforms.
4People need to understand that chimpanzees are sentient and sapient because these chimpanzees had given me so much.
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