Sapience
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- Sentience redirects here, due to the confusion between the terms sentience and sapience. Almost all creatures on Spore are assumed to be sentient.
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[edit] Definitions and Distinctions
[edit] Sapience:
Sapience is the ability of an organism or entity to act with judgement or intelligence. [1] Sapience is synonymous with some usages of the term sentient, though the two are not exactly equal; sentience is the ability to sense or feel, while sapience is the ability to think about sensations, feelings and ideas. Sapience is essentially a higher function than sentience.
[edit] Sentience:
Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness — the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. [2] The word sentient is often confused with the word sapient, which can connotate knowledge, higher consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusion is that the word conscious has a number of different meanings in English. (It's easier to distinguish the two by looking at their Latin roots: sentire, "to feel"; and sapere, "to know".) Sapience is a noun that comes from the Latin adjective sapien which means wise or intelligent. You may have heard the word sapien in the latin name for human: Homo Sapien or in Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis (nee-an-der-thal-en-sis); the Latin word for Neanderthals.
[edit] In-Game
The advent of sapience in Spore marks the reaching of the Tribal stage, achieved by upgrading a creature's intelligence until it reaches a critical level in the creature editor.
During Space Stage, if you abduct sapient species and beam them down on an unclaimed inhabitable planet, they will build a fire and attack or run away from animals. If put near a city, they will walk towards the city hall and then never come back out.
