Sentients

If only these so-called sentients, these somnambulistic Vssey, were more like the AAnn! ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2004)

While this area lies among the lands of Old Khardnam, it was a place avoided by most humans and sentients until the former slaves of the Twelverisings settled here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Second, I think the most plausible versions of utilitarianism frame themselves as theories of how to treat people (or sentients) equally, and this conception is a big part of their intuitive appeal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's extremely well done and I'll never forget the portrayal of these "supposedly less than human" sentients and their struggles in bondage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are uneducated sentients who nonetheless are wise, men of great education and training who are truly humble, and talking trees of a like you have not seen before. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But these next-gen sentients won't wander in from Africa, as the gracile Cro-Magnons did: They'll roll through the doors of artificial intelligence labs. ❋ Seth Shostak (2011)

“Greetings, gentle sentients,” he said, rising from his chair. ❋ James A. Owen (2010)

Rather, these sophisticated sentients start miniaturizing their technology, eventually uploading their minds into some sort of microelectronic computer, at which point colonizing star systems will seem as tempting as oxcart travel. ❋ Seth Shostak (2010)

To the amazement of just about all earthly sentients, it turns out that the universal expansion is actually speeding up, not slowing down. ❋ Seth Shostak (2010)

That suggests that these alpha male sentients might repair to regions of high energy density, for instance the center of the Galaxy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(I do hope this isn't Grimalkin we're wading through.) \par (They don't eat sentients, Khornya,) Aari reminded her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sole agrees to trade this knowledge, but not for just anything: it requires the sentients to show feats of cleverness for such stuff. ❋ Mark (2008)

If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Young local "Sharp" runs away from home after his Father is disgraced at a meeting with some notables where his scientific observations which the local sentients share by literally sharing their blood and small chunks of their bodies, are rejected. ❋ Cindy (2010)

But the military isn't sending any, because the new base they're building will do *cool and crazy stuff you'll learn in the course of the story* and that's meant to be a secret, and they didn't realise the builder team contained sentients. ❋ Mikandra (2010)

Even a [lowly] [rat] is [fully] sentient. ❋ Wnoise (2010)

[Human beings] are sentient [creatures]. ❋ Fuzzer (2005)

❋ TheTRUTH (2003)

Girl - I'm going to get a sentient for [my birthday]. Boy - Eh? Girl - It's the polite way to say pet, pet is so last century. Boy - What sort of animal will you chose? I've got a dog - he's great. Girl - Well I've thought a long time about it and I've decided to get a rescued rat. Boy - [Yuk]! A rat - you are seriously [losing it]. Girl - Why? I all think rodents are lovely. ❋ Pigsty (2007)

[Greetings] sentient! ❋ Outis (2003)

A door being [aware] of the [sensor] picking you up, and thus opening, it is thus [sentient] ❋ Noximous (2012)

J: [I’m] a [sentient toaster] ❋ Ace The Simp (2023)

This is a discussion forum, not an "argue [ad nauseam] about narratives and biases you hold like blood feuds that [span] decades" forum, you [sentient buttplug]. ❋ Senbutt (2018)

I invented and made and created [SENTIENT] BEJroooomings by [lbj] as in [Lonnie benningfield junior] ♥ 💙. ❋ Bjtutall (2022)

"[Glenn] doesn't [merely] 'play' [rugby], he indulges in the legendary art of 'Sentient Frolicking' ❋ BANNEDPLAYER (2020)