@Godschild
My Concise Oxford Dictionary defines 'sapient' as: "would-be wise,of fancied sagacity ;aping wisdom' Do you perhaps mean 'sentience'? All that means is "the power of sense perception ". What about self awareness? That's been observed amongst other primates ( as has compassion) Awareness of death? Elephants. Problem solving? Other apes do that, and rooks have been observed making a tool to make a tool. Morality? A survival tool based on pragmatism. A soul? I reject the existence of the soul.
We SEEM to be the only animal aware of its own mortality. However, the debate about what constitutes a person is far from over.
Are neanderthals extinct? Its seems so to me,but I don't know that for a fact. I will continue to accept their extinction until such time I see evidence to the contrary.
My Concise Oxford Dictionary defines 'sapient' as: "would-be wise,of fancied sagacity ;aping wisdom' Do you perhaps mean 'sentience'? All that means is "the power of sense perception ". What about self awareness? That's been observed amongst other primates ( as has compassion) Awareness of death? Elephants. Problem solving? Other apes do that, and rooks have been observed making a tool to make a tool. Morality? A survival tool based on pragmatism. A soul? I reject the existence of the soul.
We SEEM to be the only animal aware of its own mortality. However, the debate about what constitutes a person is far from over.
Are neanderthals extinct? Its seems so to me,but I don't know that for a fact. I will continue to accept their extinction until such time I see evidence to the contrary.
