* Jotoki: Sentient starfish-shaped beings formed by the joining of the lobes of five non-sentient eel-like life forms into a single brain.

The first vow of a Bodhisattva states: " Sentient beings are numberless ; I vow to free them.

Sentient intelligence should be able to make sense of this existence in a way that allows human beings to realise their capabilities in the world.

:: Sentient beings are innumerable ; I vow to save them all.

" Sentient beings " is a technical term in Vajrayāna denoting the mindstreams of all those consciousnesses not yet aware of the emptiness and fullness of perfection.

In 2003, Aenima released their second full-length album, Sentient, via the US-based Middle Pillar Presents label, becoming the first European act to be signed by the label.

Sentient parasitic disembodied hands which control the mind of their host.

Sentient powers are called Talents, and may be used at will by their possessor.

SHODAN ( Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network ) is a fictional artificial intelligence and the main antagonist of the cyberpunk first-person shooter / role-playing video games System Shock and System Shock 2.

* Cleansing the Doors of Perception: The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, 2000, Tarcher / Putnam, ISBN 1-58542-034-4, Council on Spiritual Practices, ISBN 1-889725-03-X, Sentient Publications, ISBN 1-59181-008-6

Jon has also co-authored two non-fiction books: LEARNING LATER, LIVING GREATER with Nancy Merz Nordstrom ( 2006, Sentient Publications ) and THE COMPLETE IDIOT ' S GUIDE TO ULTIMATE FIGHTING with Rich " Ace " Franklin ( 2007, Alpha Books / Penguin / Putnam ).

* The Slug: Sentient alien corporation / economy / 419 scam from the router.

Sentient alien species ( such as Kryptonians and Thanagarians ) and even functioning interstellar societies are generally known to exist, and the arrival of alien spacecraft is not uncommon.

Bucky and his crew are members of the S. P. A. C. E organization, which stands for Sentient Protoplasm Against Colonial Encroachment.

Draal believes that it is because they are most familiar with the Third Principle of Sentient Life.

Carmen left the band after Sentient was released.

Sentient non-human life on Earth is also suggested by interaction between humpback whales and a menacing spacecraft in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

His novels Un animal doué de raison ( A Sentient Animal, 1967 ), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil ( 1972 ), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former, in 1973, as The Day of the Dolphin.

Most notable in this regard is the discussion of the " four traces " of Self, Person, Sentient Being and Life in Chapter Nine.

*” The Problem of the Media ,” Sentient Times, June – July.

Krishnamurti, 2002, Sentient Publications.

In the Bhaiṣajyaguruvaidūryaprabharāja Sūtra, the Medicine Buddha is described as having entered into a state of samadhi called " Eliminating All the Suffering and Afflictions of Sentient Beings.

She then recites the Third Principle of Sentient Life, which is its capacity for self-sacrifice, for a cause, a loved one, for a friend, and says goodbye and hopes that someday, she will see him again.

Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications.

Sentient computing is a form of ubiquitous computing which uses sensors to perceive its environment and react accordingly.

George P. Dvorsky ( born on May 11, 1970 ) is a bioethicist, transhumanist, futurist, and producer of the Sentient Developments blog and podcast.

The hymen is, in essence, a fragile membrane that more or less completely covers the entrance to the vagina in most female human beings who have not had sex relations.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

Irenaeus does not regard Adam and Eve merely as private individuals, but as universal human beings, who were and are all of humanity.

To the Zen monk the universe is still populated with `` spiritual beings '' who have to be appeased.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

Traditionally, a bodhisattva is anyone who, motivated by great compassion, has generated bodhicitta, which is a spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings.

A bodhisattva is one who has a determination to free sentient beings from samsara and its cycle of death, rebirth and suffering.

# king-like bodhisattva-one who aspires to become buddha as soon as possible and then help sentient beings in full fledge ;

# boatman-like bodhisattva-one who aspires to achieve buddhahood along with other sentient beings and

# shepherd-like bodhisattva-one who aspires to delay buddhahood until all other sentient beings achieve buddhahood.

# Very difficult to train: Bodhisattvas who attain this bhūmi strive to help sentient beings attain maturity, and do not become emotionally involved when such beings respond negatively, both of which are difficult to do.

Ian Kaplan of BearCave. com gave the book three stars out of five, saying that while he was " not entirely satisified " and felt that the " story tends to be shallow ", " Jeter does deal with the moral dilemma of the Blade Runners who hunt down beings that are virtually human in every way.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

The film Blade Runner ( 1982 ), adapted from Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, is set in 2019 in a dystopian future in which manufactured beings called replicants are slaves used on space colonies and are legal prey on Earth to various bounty hunters who " retire " ( kill ) them.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

So therefore, if Searle is right, it's most likely that human beings ( as we see them today ) are actually " zombies ," who nevertheless insist they are conscious.

Interestingly, the android character Data is transformed into a cyborg in the film too by having organic components integrated into him ( the reverse of the Borg, who were organic beings who had synthetic components made part of them ).

* Cybergirl Cybergirl is a cyber replicant prototype 6000, a " cyborg " from a distant planet who ran away to explore the beings she was created after, human beings.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.

Also, there are the Slylandro, who are gas beings residing in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant.