Talk: AnonymousRain

Welcome, AnonymousRain!

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Regarding sentience

Hello there. I just wanted to point out that, while "sentient" does mean "endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness," it has a different ùeaning in the Star Wars universe, that is "capable of intelligent thought." Therefore, porgs are non-sentient according to the in-universe definiton. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 11:03, January 10, 2020 (UTC)

• Let's try it again. In Star Wars works, the word "sentient" has traditionally been used to describe a species "able to reason and understand abstract concepts and ideas, make and use tools, and communicate with written or spoken language." The word "non-sentient" qualifies a species that survives only on its natural instincts. (The New Essential Guide to Alien Species) There's no need to tell me that it doesn't match the definition of sentience IRL, I know that perfectly well—in fact, the proper term for that distinction would be "sapience." But if the in-universe sources use "sentient" to mean "sapient," then there is nothing you or I can change about that. Here at Wookieepedia, we chronicle/document what official sources say, we don't get to change what we think needs changing. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 20:58, January 10, 2020 (UTC)
  • Use Google (or any other search engine), and search all instances of the word "sentient" in the official Star Wars website. You will see that, every time, it is specifically used to describe species that have a language, tools, a culture, and so on. In Star Wars, the notion of "sentience" is used to separate mere creatures from more advanced life forms capable of building civilizations. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 21:28, January 10, 2020 (UTC)