sapience

For a while yet, the general critics of machine sapience will have good press.

"What the hell do they want for proof of sapience?"

This sapience was all a big fake; he had to believe that.

Birds were the next species after humans to reach sapience.

With sapience, at least there will in all cases be minds to which you can relate.

We were amazed to discover that sapience was possible without vision.

"Why, this would have proved the case for Fuzzy sapience without the thing ever getting into a court room."

Hadn't he gone to law to prove their sapience?

But we located one that has potential for sapience.

He remained there now, functioning on the level of a beast, his sapience gone.

"Before we go any deeper, let's agree on a definition of sapience."

I have made the setting sapience rather than humanity.

"I am an alien sapience in possession of this Impact body," he announced.

It operates well enough for potential sapience, we judge.

Life is a rare thing, sapience more seldom yet.

Many even agree that there is a threshold of sapience above which animals should be granted civil rights.

Who knows, some century the Solarians may even achieve sapience."

You might use flint tools, little friend, but there's nothing primitive about your level of sapience.

Strange that the achievement of sapience had been so nearly simultaneous across the Cluster.

Is it still necessary to hold, pending reverification for soul sapience?

Intervention, of course, is my responsibility, but the sapience question is yours.

No, sister, we need to tunnel nearer the surface to find the roots of sapience.

Where, they demanded, was the proof of that sapience?

No other possession had such potential for betraying illegal sapience on a forbidden world.

It had happened before, nearly every time a wolfling race appeared, claiming to have raised itself to sapience without help from any other.