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Alright, I give. What the heck is "sapience"?


Generally people use that word to mean "wisdom" or at least "some reasoning ability distinct from what animals have".

Edit to add: From a personal perspective I don't see any reason to think humans have qualitatively different reasoning abilities from animals, or a unique "soul" or anything like that, so the term "sapience" doesn't really have a special resonance with me like it might for someone who thinks those things. That may affect some judgements here I don't know.


You know, the capacity of though/intelligence/understanding the world?

As in "homo sapiens" (same latin root)


Sounds by a wide margin even less well defined than AGI or sentience




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