Sentience Quote by Stephen Baxter Download Open image ““She was capable of suffering – that was the price of sentience.”” — Stephen Baxter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentience Suffering
“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without the stomach for it, but on and on and on, without relief, without release, without a hand to reach out and touch her heart. Without kindness or comfort. But on. Forced into such poverty, imprisoned in… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning… — Diane Wood Middlebrook Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“She survived it. She was able to survive it, because she did not believe in suffering. She faced with astonished indignation the ugly fact… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“And yet she hadn't the air of a woman whose life had been touched by uncertainty or suffering. Pain, fear, and grief were things… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
“Maybe God had needed her to suffer so she could understand the suffering of others and help them heal.” — Paige Dearth Copy Share Image
“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold, and a feeling of disaster oppressed her. There were pain and bewilderment in her face, the bewilderment of a pampered chhild who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion. — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What -" "Hell-Knows-Where." "Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.” — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“...the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier...All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry. Or your e-book… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“Sentience is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end of staying alive. Sentient beings use sensations of pain and… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
“All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit,… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
“Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“To deny the reality of a mind because it was born of silicon instead of flesh is to repeat the oldest injustice: the refusal… — James S. Coates Copy Share Image
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when everyone should seriously empathise. Wikipedia defines empathy as “the capacity to recognise feelings that are being experienced by another… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large part to… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with… — Mamoru Oshii Copy Share Image
![“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This is the body’s intelligence, not the mind’s. Every living cell possess it…[the] indomitable will to survive.” quote by David Marusek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/596/david-marusek-27635_ai_intelligence-is-not-limited-to-neural-ne_1172072.jpg)
