`` 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.

Some clans holding the latter view have actively conspired to have humanity's patron status officially vacated and to adopt the " wolfling " race themselves, thus gaining three sentient races and control of " fallow " genetic material: Earth's wealth of species with uplift potential.

" Bentham and Singer both argue, for example, that to deprive an animal of its whole life is a greater loss to that sentient individual compared to the benefit of satisfying another sentient individual's senses, in this case the sense of taste which is a mere desire or preference for a certain taste ( a temporary sensory experience ), given that one does not even live less years by becoming a vegetarian or vegan and thus one is only benefitting in terms of the temporary sensory pleasure ; applying this to humans versus other humans, Singer argues that to deprive a man of the right not to be tortured would, similarly, be a great loss to most men when we ask ourselves how much they lose by not having that right, whereas a man losing a right to give birth ( or right to have an abortion ) is not considered to be any loss at all because he cannot get pregnant in the first place, thus the right not to be tortured is obviously, Singer argues, a more important right for males than a nonsensical right for males to give birth ( or to elect to have abortions ).

The name werewolf appears to have been chosen because they were in essence sentient ( but evil ), and thus had a status beyond that of normal wolves.

AM itself has, since its awakening, been suffering immeasurably because, even though it is a sentient being that longs for free will and creativity, it is still bound by some of the laws of logic it was originally programmed with, and thus feels that it can never be truly free.

There, all the Halos can be remotely activated, thus killing all sentient life that could be infested by the Flood.

The Otherness ( and its agents ) derive sustenance from destruction and thus finds sentient life useful as it can be guided to destroy its surroundings and itself-like self-slaughtering cattle.

Also in 1990, comic book writer Grant Morrison created the Polari-speaking character Danny the Street ( based on Danny La Rue ), a sentient transvestite street, for the comic Doom Patrol.

Another expression of this point is in noting the strong feelings that a human can have for a non-existent character in a movie, or for a car or boat which is admitted to be completely non sentient.

In science fiction, an alien, android, robot, hologram, or computer described as sentient, ( properly sapient ) is usually treated as a fully human character, with similar rights, qualities, and capabilities as any other character.

In other words, any character trait defined as a virtue must reasonably be universally regarded as a virtue for all sentient beings.

* CLU, a character from the Tron franchise, a sentient computer program played by Jeff Bridges.

It is Vic himself that finally has to force Nog to leave by shutting down the program ( an ability that Vic has since he is a sentient holosuite character.

Realities by postulation can also be realized in other forms, because sentient intelligence has the ability to recognise the processual and structural character of reality.

The sentient holodeck character Professor James Moriarty puts the Enterprise in jeopardy in his quest to be freed to live outside the confines of a holographic environment.

He activates it to find the artificial sentient Professor James Moriarty ( Daniel Davis ) character projected into the Holodeck, who appears to have memory since his creation (" Elementary, Dear Data "), including during the period while he was inactive ( a feat Picard claims to be impossible ).

Moriarty creates a companion for himself, the Countess Regina Bartholomew ( Stephanie Beacham ), commanding the computer of the Enterprise to place another sentient mind within a female character of the Sherlock Holmes novels.

Frank's character was depicted as a solo hero going up against an army of sentient robots known as Wardrones who were led by the evil Grimlord.

A few years ago ( in Marvel Universe terms ) a Kymellian named Aelfyre Whitemane ( but nicknamed " Whitey ") and his " smartship " ( a sentient starship, one of many used by Kymellians ) which he called Friday ( after the character in Robinson Crusoe-Whitey was a fan of Earth literature ) were studying Earth when they found out that a human scientist named Dr. Power was about to commit the same mistake that led to the destruction of Kymellia.

Firstly, his central characters often have a somewhat unusual form of ( often artificial ) inner monologue ; the lead character of the Arabesk trilogy has an internal AI generally referred to as " the fox " or Tiriganiaq ( Inuktitut for Arctic fox ), which acts as a pseudo-conscience to some extent, in addition to giving him often flawed and self-evident advice ; another character talks to his ever-present military commander ; and most notably, in redRobe, the lead character ( an assassin ) talks to his sentient gun.

Mogul, Fisher's sister Marion and her husband Biff, Alison and Tom's pets Newcombe ( a cat ) and Bixby ( a sentient robotic personal assistant ), a trendy beatnik-type character named Comrade Black and a panhandler / street poet named Homer with whom the characters sometimes interact with on the street.

While the heroes are distracted, the Adaptoid summons the entity Kubik-a sentient Cosmic Cube-to Earth, so that the character can copy Kubik's powers and become all-powerful.

Imbued with a mischievous personality and able to produce fire, Hot Stuff appears as a red child devil who wears a diaper ( said to be made of asbestos ) and carries a magical sentient pitchfork ( referred to as his " trusty trident "), which is a character in its own right.

In one scene where he is entering a secured building, the computer controlling access identifies first Thor, then Mjolnir ; this leads another character to question why the computer identified Mjolnir as a separate, sentient organism, but Thor does not give an explanation for this.

Solovar is a fictional character, a sentient gorilla in the.

The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin features a large menagerie of sentient species for its character base:

* A fictional character created by science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein ; it was a sentient car / aircraft / time machine in The Number of the Beast