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> Humans are sentient; flies and mosquitoes are not. they're not? did you ask them ? otherwise we would apparently have a test for "sentience" here that w
by zzzeek 4y ago
> Humans are sentient; flies and mosquitoes are not.
they're not? did you ask them ? otherwise we would apparently have a test for "sentience" here that we can use, right?
"We don't know what makes things sentient–so let's stop acting like we do" - but we DO know that flies and mosquitoes are not sentient. Fascinating!
- ausbah 4y agoeven if something is sentient, it seems like intelligence doesn't have to come hand in hand. it's certainly possible to imagine a being that can recognize the concept of self but sucks at any attributes of "intelligence" (long term planning, modeling external phenomena, etc.)