Questions tagged [sapience]
Questions about sapience and sapient creatures. Any questions asking about human-level intelligence or creatures which possess or will evolve such intelligence. Consider also [intelligence].
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Is there any way a species could evolve to run across lava using the leidenfrost effect?
So far all I really know is that the leidenfrost effect would work, just not exactly how the species would have evolved it, but I do know it would require a store of water, likely like that of a camel....
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How could a sapient species lose its intelligence?
A relatively common idea in Sci-Fi and especially speculative evolution is the idea of humans or some other intelligent species ending up losing their sapience(often done for the sake of horror).
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Must a sapient species rely entirely on language to advance? [closed]
Humans, unlike other intelligent species, have a unique reliance on our language. Is this required? Could a species, with language, realistically advance to human-level technology without having a ...
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Justifying why nonhuman sapients would not develop civilisation [closed]
I am imagining a project where the development of more advanced brain-computer interfaces allow humans to communicate telepathically with animals, and so discover that numerous species on Earth are ...
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Are there ethical ways to profit from uplifting?
Humans have entered a period known as the biotech renaissance, where the advent of new forms of genetic modification gives rise to a host of new bioengineered life forms.
One of these are animals that ...
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economics of uplifiting an animal species
So, the concept of uplifting, or “Algernonics” as I term it, (based on the book “flowers for algernon”, look it up) is the idea in science fiction of raising an animal species to sapience, (whether ...
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What If Bears Evolved Speech, What Would Their Voices Sound Like? [duplicate]
What if in a alternate reality,
every bear on planet Earth
suddenly evolve and became sapient like humans, and evolve the ability of speech, but realistically, what would their voices sound like?
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Could a species of Obligate Carnivores achieve sapience?
So I had this idea for a sort of Speculative Evolution/sci-fi project where humanity(known as the Founders) found no life beyond their solar system and decided to terra-form various planets with life ...
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Born as mindless blank slates, become sapient as adults
My species is a eusocial race of insectoid aliens. The basic gist is only the Queens are sapient, and the soldiers and workers are non-sapient. To me it felt like there wouldn't be much of a society ...
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What type of organism should these brain symbiotes be? [closed]
So, I'm designing A species of sapient extraterrestrials for a series of short stories, and I've decided it would add flavour if they relied on a species of symbiotic organism to enhance their ...
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How can these aliens evolve sapience without cooking?
So, I have a species of sapient aliens I'm designing, but I have one big problem: Cooking is widely (although not universally) considered to be a major factor in the evolution of sapience in humans, ...
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Can reconnection of continents be sufficient reason for the evolution of sapience?
So, the process that began the evolution of sapience in humans was ultimately triggered by a changing climate forcing chimpanzees into a drastically new habitat; I am trying to write about a race of ...
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Social Etiquette for a Winged Sapient [closed]
On Damarian, my gas giant moon, many species live and interact, and have their own nation (Often an offspring nation of a nation on the species' home world, as Damarian is a sanctuary planet). One ...
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Could an organism that is longer than it is tall be as intelligent as humans?
When walking humans are taller than they are long. The neck being directly below the head helps support the weight of the head, and the body being directly below the neck also supports the weight of ...
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Sapient Apes - How to make them not Human? [closed]
What if our common ancestor with chimpanzees still became intelligent and sapient, how could they end up very different from homo-sapiens, physically? Could they evolve in a different environment, or ...
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