The surface of the planet Pandora is 80 % seas, and the sea is dominated by a type of kelp which appears to be sentient.

`` All I know is that you were outside the bubbles last night, and you were the only sentient being who came in or out of our alarm web.

The word aesthetic is derived from the Greek αἰσθητικός ( aisthetikos, meaning " esthetic, sensitive, sentient "), which in turn was derived from αἰσθάνομαι ( aisthanomai, meaning " I perceive, feel, sense ").

In both codes the first rule is to abstain from taking the life of a sentient being ().

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.

# Great Joy: It is said that being close to enlightenment and seeing the benefit for all sentient beings, one achieves great joy, hence the name.

The tathāgathagarbha sutras, in a departure from mainstream Buddhist language, insist that the potential for awakening is inherent to every sentient being.

In the Metroid Prime series, Phazon is a highly radioactive, self-regenerating mineral with organic properties that is generated by the sentient planet Phaaze.

When he first encounters the Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, Davros is the chief scientist of the Kaleds, one of two native sentient races of the planet Skaro.

The more speculative versions of Gaia, including versions in which it is believed that the Earth is actually conscious, sentient, and highly intelligent, are usually considered outside the bounds of what is usually considered science.

The Abolitionist Society is a transhumanist group calling for the abolition of suffering in all sentient life through the use of advanced biotechnology.

This creates a dystopian future where all life and natural evolution is under assault by the infectious, villainous, sentient bacteria " Sublime ".

Marx thus departs from Hegel by insisting that " the fact that man is a corporeal, actual, sentient, objective being with natural capacities means that he has actual, sensuous objects for his nature as objects of his life-expression, or that he can only express his life in actual sensuous objects.

The strongest motivation one has in order to take the path of the Bodhisattva is the idea of salvation within unselfish, altruistic love for all sentient beings.

On Kzinhome, however, the czrav and forest nomad prides, outcasts from mainstream Kzinti culture, never accepted the Black Priests, and in consequence have fully sentient kzinrretti, although this fact is a carefully held secret.

In Herbert's fiction, following the defeat of the thinking machines by humanity in the Butlerian Jihad, it is forbidden to create sentient machines.

Some believe that the Darkforce is sentient and sometimes has an evil influence on those who use it.

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* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

For Nāgārjuna, as for the Buddha in the early texts, it is not merely sentient beings that are " selfless " or non-substantial ; all phenomena are without any svabhāva, literally " own-being " or " self-nature ", and thus without any underlying essence.

The only serious prohibitions that seem to exist are against harming sentient beings, or forcing them into undertaking any act ( another concept that seems unnatural to and is, in fact, almost unheard of by almost all Culture citizens ).

Star Trek: Voyager introduced another twist, when " surplus " EMHs, such sophisticated expert systems as to be almost indistinguishable from human, being effectively reduced to slavery, while other, similar systems were turned into sentient prey.

Now Mliss Abnethe, a psychotic human female with immense power and wealth, has bound a Caleban ( called Fannie Mae ) in a contract that allows the Caleban to be whipped to death ; when the Caleban dies, everyone who has ever used a jumpdoor ( which is almost every adult in the sentient world and many of the young ) will die as well.

She participates in several missions into the Matrix, including taking Neo to The Oracle, a sentient program inside the Matrix who seems, almost paradoxically, to possess greatly enhanced powers of intuition and foresight.

The howl is modulated to affect the complex, intelligent brains of sentient beings, and will almost instantly disorient and cripple those who hear it.

When Ecco returned to ' his ' present, 500 years after the Foe attack, dolphins were barely sentient animals, and humans had already long been extinct.

The Mondites however received the distress call before the Reticulum could be notified ; through studying the black box and the remains, they finally discover the aliens ' homeworld, a moon which they name Daedalus ( named after the Greek myth ) in a remote sector of the galaxy and establish a base while investigating the ruins the aliens left behind ; a sentient race known as the Phyxx who were long thought to be extinct.

In " Ship in a Bottle ", Barclay unwittingly revives a sentient holo-simulation of Sherlock Holmes ' arch-foe, Professor James Moriarty ( previously seen in " Elementary, Dear Data ") while performing holodeck maintenance.

Cable traveled between the 1990s and his future with his ship Graymalkin, which contained a sentient computer program called Professor, the future version of the program built into X-Factor's Ship.

The group is seemingly settled into Ship, a sentient flying headquarters.

Rictor and his friends spent much time living on the sentient craft named ' Ship '.

Cable travels between the present and his future with his ship Graymalkin, which contained a sentient computer program called Professor ( the future version of the program built into X-Factor's Ship ).

At the end of a practice session, there is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition of dedicating any accumulated merits that one may have gathered during practice to the benefit of all sentient beings.

In some representations of the wheel, there is a buddha or bodhisattva depicted within each realm, trying to help sentient beings find their way to nirvana.

The initial prayer Ewoks address to C-3PO is actually the beginning part of Tibetan Buddhist prayer for the benefit of all sentient beings, or so called four immeasurables, but also there is a second ( out of four ) part of refuge prayer.

He is most famous for his advocation of the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient beings.

Kdatlyno are one of the few sentient races that can physically intimidate an adult Kzin, and there is at least one mention of them being used as elite Imperial Guards for the Kzinti Patriarch, presumably due to both their great strength and their uninvolvement in Kzin imperial court politics.

In a number of major Mahayana sutras ( e. g. the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Srimala Sutra, among others ), the Buddha is presented as clarifying this teaching by saying that, while the skandhas ( constituents of the ordinary body and mind ) are not the self, there does truly exist an eternal, unchanging, blissful Buddha-essence in all sentient beings, which is the uncreated and deathless Buddha-nature (" Buddha-dhatu ") or " True Self " of the Buddha himself.

In addition to the eight currently playable factions there are also several more in development, such as the Omicron Hive, a civilization of sentient arachnids that specialize in the use of turrets, the BioLumen, a secretive alien race formed of living metal that are particularly proficient in the use of energy weapons, and the Archangel Empire, a faction branching off from GigaCorp that specialize in defensive technologies.

According to a common misunderstanding, in the Dzogchen tradition, particularly Dzogchen Semde or " mind series " the principal text of which is the Kulayarāja Tantra, there is nothing which is non-sentient, i. e. everything is sentient ..

As a kind of sub-plot it is revealed that beneath Thalassa's oceans there live sentient beings similar to the sea scorpions of Earth, only much larger.

The Felysians were the only sentient beings in the Noctis galaxy, so there are none to find in the Noctis game.

Life on Earth had already advanced to the eukaryote stage of development, and the rate of evolution proceeded slightly faster for the bacteria on their new world, allowing life there to evolve to the point that it could produce the sentient Chigs at roughly the same time that modern humans evolved.

In the Dzogchen tradition, there are three indivisible modes of energy that govern manifestation, and therefore thoughtform phenomena and the energy of sentient beings:

According to the Dzogchen tradition, there is nothing which is non-sentient, or stated differently, everything is sentient technically Panpsychism and this is the view of Dzogchen Semde or " mind series " the principal text of which is the Kulayarāja Tantra.

This is a reference to Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach in which there exists a sentient ant colony, with the ants acting as neurons.

In it, Destiny of the Endless reveals to Supergirl and Lobo that his book, The Book of Destiny, a vastly ancient, omniscient, historical " Bible " of sorts containing a record of every sentient being's past, present and, most importantly, future, making it a highly sought-after and dangerous artifact to possess, has changed because there appeared to be men who existed, but were not recorded in the book, and their undocumented actions made the book unreliable.

In all three novels there are also several mentions of clockwork gems, metaclockwork, sentient robot-like constructs operating with difference engines, and many other inexplicable or fantastic instances of science, magic and combination of both.

The ten spiritual realms are part of the belief of some forms of Buddhism that there are ten conditions of life which sentient beings are subject to, and which they experience from moment to moment.

He did not refute the tenets of the Saṃtãnãntarasiddhi but further developed the topic from an empirical one, that is, where there are manifold minds cognized by one's experience of others ' mental processes attributed through the perceived actions of other sentient beings to an absolutist view, where there is only " one mindstream " ( ekacitta ).

Unfortunately, there were sentient species identical to humans on the planet and so they had to be deported from it (" Ark Project ") to another one.

The first choice was Ark but since the discovery of a sentient alien race there, progressors have apparently changed their mind.

Despite that, there is some protein life on the planet although no sentient one.

For the most part, Kaccāna, sentient beings depend on two kinds of belief-belief that " there is " ( things exist ) and belief that " there is not " ( things do not exist ).