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According to Buddhism, sentient beings made of pure consciousness are possible. In Mahayana Buddhism, which includes Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, the concept is related to the Bodhisattva, an enlightened being devoted to the liberation of others. The first vow of a Bodhisattva states, "Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them."
According to the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, "near human-like levels of consciousness" have been observed in the grey parrot. [1]Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself.
'When I were a lad' it was often used (particularly in the Science Fiction I read copiously) to mean something like 'conscious and reasoning', with the implication of having human-comparable intelligence; this popular meaning seems latterly to have been replaced by "sapient", with sentient reverting to its original meaning as detailed in the ...
From 'automata' to sentient. There is not a standard definition for animal sentience or consciousness, but generally the terms denote an ability to have subjective experiences: to sense and map ...
The Elf Ecthelion slays the Orc champion Orcobal in Gondolin. 2007 illustration by Tom Loback. J. R. R. Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, [T 1] created what he came to feel was a moral dilemma for himself with his supposedly evil Middle-earth peoples like Orcs, when he made them able to speak.
Sentience, like consciousness, is a concept sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the concept of intelligence and sapience, since it does not exclude forms of life that are non-sapient (or more broadly non-intelligent or non-conscious). [6] The term extraterrestrial civilization frames a more particular case of extraterrestrial intelligence. It ...
The definition of happiness is a common philosophical topic. Some define it as experiencing the feeling of positive emotional affects , while avoiding the negative ones. [ 328 ] [ 329 ] Others see it as an appraisal of life satisfaction or quality of life . [ 330 ]
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