We can never determine with certainty whether plants feel pain or whether their perception of injury is sufficiently like that of animals to be called by the same word.
It may be, for example, that for certain purposes an historic state of affairs involving a rose is sufficiently like standard situations involving red things as to warrant sameness of classification, while for different purposes its likeness is outweighed by its dissimilarities from the standard cases.
Notably, positive affective presence predicted whether a person would be sufficiently liked by others to obtain second dates, and mediated the relationships between a documented source of likeability (i.e. perceived responsiveness) and romantic interest.
He should be so lucky as to be sufficiently like her to need to create difference.
"'Are you like your character on Peep Show?' is the question you weren't about to ask, but it comes up," he says drily, then adds, for clarification, "We're sufficiently like that that we'd be against type if we played them the other way round".
The implication is that the freed people were sufficiently like these immigrants to justify the inference that had government vigorously protected their civil and voting rights then they too by would have blended into the larger American fabric.
According to Austin, a stating by use of that sentence would be correct if the thing selected in the stating via the demonstrative conventions were sufficiently like standard situations or states of affairs in which a selected thing is red.
He was not sure that the subject of ethics was sufficiently like science and unlike theology to render his academic position legitimate, even if he did not have to swear belief in the Thirty-Nine Articles.
If it happened only once or very rarely, the survivors would be sufficiently like us (as we could still engage with them interpersonally, and our interactions with them could still make sense from within our current form of life) that they would be one of us, but they couldn't be identical to the original person.
At least in the West, the traditional — and perhaps still intuitive to many people — way of thinking about consciousness is as primarily an innate endowment of humans, which other animals may or may not share in virtue of being sufficiently like us.
Whether the actor's behavior is sufficiently human-like and human-compatible in this sense, can be judged based on a Turing-like test that is described and analyzed here in simplistic videogame settings.
