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Topic Title: Sentience Vs Sapience
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Created On: 05/24/2017 05:42 AM
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WG

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Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.

Sapience is often defined as wisdom, or the ability of an organism or entity to act with appropriate judgement.


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ignorance may deride it,
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 05/24/2017 09:17 AM
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RegularJoe

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Similar to the Spanish verbs "sentir" and "saber"
 05/24/2017 10:13 AM
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WG

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I guess the point is that pretty much any animal is sentient, but few are sapient.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill
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