"Skorpions," for example, involves a padded garment threaded with nitinol wires; when a performer wears the garment, electrical currents pulse through the wires to make them contract, making the dress writhe like a sentient creature.
Charles Darwin's ideas about evolutionary continuity also strongly argue in favor of other animals being sentient and conscious beings and it's important to stress that their sentience and consciousness does not have to just like ours to make them members of the sentience and consciousness club.
Again - I was trying to make them understand that the danger is the tool wielded by the wrong people that was a frightening prospect - not just some vague notion of some amorphous entity lurking behind our lives like the sentient evil in some horror flick.
But some historians think war pigs were set on fire, making them less like sentient fighter jets, and more like sentient kamikaze planes.
Drawn in an elongated manner that makes them look like sentient carrots, the family members include three children — strange daughter, crude son, slightly evil younger daughter — and their mother, Linda, the show's best comic creation.
Sooner or later, we'll get to a place where simulating a few billion people – and making them believe they are sentient beings with the ability to control their own destinies – will be as easy as sending a stranger a picture of your genitals on your phone.
Sooner or later, we'll get to a place where simulating a few billion people and making them believe they are sentient beings with the ability to control their own destinies will be as easy as sending a stranger a picture of your genitals on your phone.
We nurture those sentient beings, making them thrive, only to snuff them out when it suits us, when we have deemed that they are nice and plump, richly fat, their flesh ripe for the eating.
It can make sentient even the furniture in a room: Pavel Petrovich meanwhile had gone back to his elegant study.
Once an artist has a chip, inexpensive sensors can be added to make the device sentient.
