tried googling it but I only got the idiom and not an actual answer

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 days ago

    it’s impossible to test until we find another sapient species (and not something like highly evolved crows in the future, because they would be affected by us), but i think it’s likely that any sapient creature would group “sapients” and “non-sapients” separately.

    Like we intuitively group other human species as “not animals” with that line getting blurrier the further back you go and they’re less obviously sapient, and at least personally i find it a little bit difficult to call parrots animals when they can literally learn to vocally describe a random object they’ve never seen before.