But then we think: wait, can we really talk like this? It is also much smaller a bee has about 1m neurons, compared with our bn. Could insects be robot-like evolved machines with absolutely no experience or feeling? Or are we underestimating what a small brain can do? New laws to impose some consistency in this area have been needed for a while.
So the animal welfare sentience bill , introduced to parliament on Thursday, is a welcome development , as is the creation of an animal sentience committee. The bill includes vertebrates by default, but explicitly allows invertebrates to be added through statutory instruments.
I can see the rationale for such an approach in an area where the science is moving quickly. For instance, on the question of insect sentience, scientists are divided , partly because there has been no serious attempt to look for sentience in insects. The science at present is too uncertain to allow us to be confident one way or the other.
I think that situation will change: one goal of my Foundations of Animal Sentience project is to address this. If the evidence does point towards sentience being widespread among invertebrates, what then? Would we end up with absurd laws banning us from stepping on insects? Laws are limited by what is enforceable and reasonable. Asked 1 year ago. Active 12 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. FableSisters FableSisters 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges.
L Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet? As we learn from the Odyssey , in the Age of Heroes multiple lineages of sentient beings walked on Earth: mortal people, gods e.
If it was good enough for Homer it is definitely good enough for the FableSisters. Different species just amps up the degree of difference. This will be good in some ways less direct competition , bad in others, compared to different races. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Dario Quint Dario Quint 81 1 1 bronze badge. Humans won't exactly need the dragons' mountaintop hideaways, or feel threatened by the crayfish people's underground swamp cities.
There are no extant examples of sapients besides humans, that's just wankery for the occasional Popular Science article. We might murder the merpeople not because we compete with them for any resources, but simply because they espouse a social structure that's incompatible with ours Damn commie fish people. A quick Google search just found articles about humming bird males using their beaks to compete with other males in the same species, with a beak-stabbing equivalent to reindeer wrestling with their antlers.
Think of cultural, religious and racial differences that set us apart Pro's are only there when the differences are enough. Theoretically this can be solved in two ways. Perfect integration, that the species as it were grew up together and are so intertwined they have no issues witch each other Complete segregation, that the species barely know of each other existence other then for trade. There can't be a conflict if you don't even know that there is a potential enemy.
But this is a powder-keg, one little spark that could lead to a major conflict. But in the last month 2 people got beheaded and 2 more killed as part of a religious conflict. By definition of 'species', all of humankind is a single species, so really what you mean is "loosely speaking we already do that". Li Jun Li Jun 8, 2 2 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 57 57 bronze badges.
In the Milky Way, humans are the most populous and politically dominant species at least, as far as we know. But if Star Wars takes place a long time ago and in another galaxy, where did the humans of Star Wars originate from? Find more about the author: Kim Hart.
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Sentient species of this origin took many diverse forms, such as the Iyra , Hutt and Ee. Avian sentient species were warm-blooded, feathered and winged creatures. They typically had light bones and strong muscles, needed to enable flight. However, many sentient avian species had lost the ability to fly.
Aquatic sentient species were those descended from marine life. These lifeforms often fit into other categories, but were classified together.
Aquatic lifeforms included those that could breathe water, air, or both. Craniopod sentient species were, despite these broad categories, lifeforms so truly alien that they did not fit easily into any of the common categories. These were categorized as exotic sentient species , and included the Bith , [11] Celegians , the Filar-Nitzan and the Pulra.
Tem Eliss , a notable sentientologist. Many institutions in the galaxy focused on the study of sentient species. The most notable were the University of Coruscant [12] and the University of Sanbra. Those scientists and anthropologists that studied sentient species were known as sentientologists. While it contained much information, it was also a conduit for Imperial propaganda , and as such, had a tendency to depict some species as less developed than was actually the case.
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