sapience

People often mix the words sentience and sapience to mean the same thing.

Mice clearly can perceive and feel things but they do not show the intelligence we call sapience.

That presupposes they have sufficient sapience to make the decision.

This includes having enough sapience to seek out existing programs for help.

I was under the impression that "Turing Test-passing general sapience" was actually a pretty niche field in AI/ML these days.

Adjusting for the frequent use of the word human to metonymically mean sapience is trivial.

Arguably, if Dr. Irene Pepperberg's work with Alex the African grey parrot is to be believed, bird sapience has already been demonstrated.

"Diaspora" by Greg Egan has a great story, huge ideas, and probably the most cogent explanation of sentience/sapience ever written.

I've always heard "sentience" defined, especially in contrast to sapience, as the ability to simply perceive one's environment.

Without a definition and concrete, testable qualities, how can we possibly hope to ever build artificial sapience.

The reason we do not view young children similarly for the same lacking sapience is that we know they will very likely gain this attribute as they grow older; cows will never do so.

I see no reason we would have the technology to terraform alien planets but not to genetically engineer some aliens to talk to or uplift local life forms to our own level of sapience.

"The question is somewhat ridiculous, there are easily many differences depending on your stance on the importance of sapience, etc, but that doesn't mean there aren't important facets to examining why it's different, and what beliefs hold up or do not under careful examination after deciding what the important differences are.