Kat Von D

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

American Artist

Dimitar Sasselov

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

Bulgarian Scientist

Paul Davies

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.

British Writer

Frank Rich

My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

American Journalist

Gary L. Francione

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

American Educator

Mary Oliver

To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.

American Poet

Daniel Dennett

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

American Philosopher

Frances Wright

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Scottish Writer

Nicolas Cage

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Actor

Max Heindel

Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.

Danish Celebrity

Sentient emphasizes having subjective experiences, not just any reaction to stimuli.

Subjectivity Nuance

Used in philosophy to debate the ability of non-humans to think or feel.

Philosophical Use

Highlights the capacity for deep feelings, going beyond basic senses.

Emotional Depth

Used to describe imagined creatures or AIs in science fiction with human-like awareness.

Sci-Fi Context

Implies that artificial intelligence can have emotions or a personality.

Humanizing AI

In literature and film, adds depth to non-human characters by giving them human traits.

Dramatic Element

 but perhaps the sentient teachers lived in these places perhaps there were places for people to meditate in this area the artwork that existed inside was it there for the people to focus their concentration and to move beyond obviously the cares concerns of this earthly life well it's difficult for us

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 It deals with the state of compassion, unconditional compassion. We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being. Of course, during the training, we do that with objects.

The habits of happiness...

 the relationship between technology and us that it should regard sentient things as gods that have superpowers it knows nothing of no is that is that ridiculous i think that the question of sentience and consciousness is the most important question in in this regard and it's the

Yuval Noah Harari...

 As we learn more, we can show which parts of the story continue to be true and which ones false, as any of them might be and any could become. And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason

Is the world getting...

 by the biological mechanisms that keep us alive. Just making computers smarter is not going to make them sentient. Finally, our own individual inner universe, our way of being conscious, is just one possible way of being conscious.

Your brain hallucinates...

 Who could have imagined that a single species of shrew-like mammal living in the cracks of the dinosaur world would evolve into sentient beings capable of characterizing and understanding the very dinosaurs they must have dreaded?

Hunting for dinosaurs...

 granite does not care either the implements of writing have never cared about meaning pens and typewriters are not sentient think Thomas Jefferson's geese had no idea what their plumage was was writing technology influences form

The evolution of the...

 How can you be sure there's no purpose when we don't even understand what this sentience thing is? I mean, in your own thinking, isn't there a chance that what humans are for is to be the universe's sentient things,

Nationalism vs....

 the other will retaliate by choosing “sacrifice” for the rest of eternity. So is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate? To figure that out, we have to factor in another

How to outsmart the...

 It's not an elegant universe. And then there's the best of all possible worlds in an ethical sense. You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly,