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<li>'''Sapient''' life has achieved sapience. Technically, sapience is the ability to think and solve problems; intelligence in the strict sense.</li> | <li>'''Sapient''' life has achieved sapience. Technically, sapience is the ability to think and solve problems; intelligence in the strict sense.</li> | ||
<li>'''Sentient''' life has achieved sentience. Sentience is awareness, including the ability to experience pleasure or pain (or analogous drives and experiences) and make predictions about the future. A sentient being is sapient to at least some degree, and sentience is in turn a prerequisite for sophonce.</li> | <li>'''Sentient''' life has achieved sentience. Sentience is awareness, including the ability to experience pleasure or pain (or analogous drives and experiences) and make predictions about the future. A sentient being is sapient to at least some degree, and sentience is, in turn, a prerequisite for sophonce.</li> | ||
<li>'''Sophont''' life has achieved sophonce. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition: self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one's thinking.</li> | <li>'''Sophont''' life has achieved sophonce. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition: self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one's thinking.</li> | ||
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"Medium Sophonts" in Trigate parlance are sophont beings who haven't developed their own | "Medium Sophonts" in Trigate parlance are sophont beings who haven't developed their own societies to a point where they could be classified as a civilization. In this sense, none of them are the rulers of a Plane or any of its constituent political bodies. The [[Planar Council]] generally refuses to accept more than a single Major Sophont per Plane, meaning that even if there other beings with a civilization on a Plane they would be classified as a Medium Sophont instead. | ||
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Revision as of 21:43, 2 August 2019
This is the page for the Trigate Medium Sophont category.
Life generally comes in one of three types:
- Sapient life has achieved sapience. Technically, sapience is the ability to think and solve problems; intelligence in the strict sense.
- Sentient life has achieved sentience. Sentience is awareness, including the ability to experience pleasure or pain (or analogous drives and experiences) and make predictions about the future. A sentient being is sapient to at least some degree, and sentience is, in turn, a prerequisite for sophonce.
- Sophont life has achieved sophonce. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition: self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one's thinking.
"Medium Sophonts" in Trigate parlance are sophont beings who haven't developed their own societies to a point where they could be classified as a civilization. In this sense, none of them are the rulers of a Plane or any of its constituent political bodies. The Planar Council generally refuses to accept more than a single Major Sophont per Plane, meaning that even if there other beings with a civilization on a Plane they would be classified as a Medium Sophont instead.
Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
M
- Medium Sophont (2 P)
- Minor Sophont (1 P)
P
- Planar Sophont (8 P)