![]() Thinker-grade AI possesses this, too, but does not have volition. (In many sentients, it is associated with the presence of a consciousness loop organizing cognitive processing into a narrative thread, but this isn’t a requisite of these mental architectures the case of non self-associated self-symbols is odd, but does seem to be permitted – see Stross, here, although this isn’t the path their AI development took.) It is often, but is not necessarily associated with a high level of sapience many animals qualify as sapients without possessing threshold autosentience, and obviously many programs, including much alife, possess very impressive problem-solving abilities while being entirely devoid of autosentience. ![]() Threshold autosentience: the minimal degree of autosentience required to meaningfully describe oneself as “I” the possession of a meaningful self-associated self-symbol in one’s mental architecture. In civilized societies, certain civil rights are associated with autosentience, principally concerned with the right not to be subjected to arbitrary suffering since, with autosentience, one attains the ability to experience suffering. Most animals (but not the plants, single-celled organisms – this is from an Earth perspective, and such odd plantimal life forms as the mezuar and the selyéva aren’t counted among these plants – and devices) qualify as autosentient to some degree, as does thinker-grade or above AI software (although not simple AI expert systems, which are sapient but not autosentient they have no qualia, merely data). Again, includes many non-sophonts, primarily animals, but also various types of computer program.Īutosentience: self-perception and self-reflection, metacognition self-awareness (“I-ness”) the possession of qualia (mental symbology associated with sensation), which for the purposes of Eldraeverse cogsci is a corollary of metacognition. Sapience: the capacity for rational thought and creativity not necessarily associated with either sentience or volition. Quantized, for technical purposes, as sensory bandwidth in bits per unit time. Includes not only sophonts, but animals, plants, single-celled organisms, and a variety of simple devices (even something as simple as a thermostat can reasonably be described as sentient, if minimally so). ![]() Sentience: the property of having sense perception the capability of experiencing sensation, without necessarily associating mental symbology with sensation. (Note, of course, that I’m using a considerable amount of Minovsky cognitive science here your mileage may vary if you try and apply any of it elsewhere.) Based off a comment here, some quick definitions for you as they’re used in the Eldraeverse:
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