Sapient may refer to Sapience , the ability of an organism or entity to act with judgment Sapient Corporation , a NASDAQ traded company disambig Reflist ... more details
wiktionary intelligent life Intelligent life may refer to Intelligence including Animal cognition Extraterrestrial intelligence theoretically intelligent Extraterrestrial life not originating from Earth Sapience , wisdom or the ability of an organism or entity to act with appropriate judgment Intelligent Life magazine , published by The Economist Group disamb ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Nihil admirari or Nil admirari is a Latin phrase. It means to be surprised by nothing . Origin Marcus Tullius Cicero argues that real sapience consists of preparing oneself for all possible incidents and not being surprised by anything, using as an example Anaxagoras , who, when informed about the death of his son, said, Sciebam me genuisse mortalem. I knew that I begot a mortal . ref Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 3,30 ref Horace and Seneca the Younger Seneca refer to similar occurrences and admired such moral fortitude. ref Horace, Epistulae 1,6,1 ref ref Seneca, Epistulae Morales 8,5 ref References references Category Latin words and phrases es Nihil admirari it Nihil admirari ... more details
unreferenced date June 2011 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Cameo Therapy Type Album Artist Noah23 Cover Noah23 cameotherapy.jpeg Released November 12, 2007 Recorded 2003 2007 Genre Hip hop music Hip hop Length 46 35 Label Legendary Entertainment br Noah23 Plague Language Producer Sapience, Blue Sky Black Death Orphan , Exponent, Vert, Scott da Ros, Omid, Selfhelp, Madadam, Evil Eye Scream, Losaka, Kate & Andrew Last album The Fool EP The Fool br 2007 This album Cameo Therapy br 2007 Next album The Big Crunch album The Big Crunch br 2008 Cameo Therapy is a 2007 compilation album by hip hop artist Noah23 . Track listing Beach Bums ft. Lord Kufu Chicken Soup ft. Fake Four Inc Ceschi Word Is Bond ft. Conflikt & Exponent Yrs ft. Vert music Vert They Made Me Do It ft. Astronautalis & Bleubird Micron Helium Balloons ft. StapleMouth Hundred Steps ft. Selfhelp Weird Science ft. Livestock rapper Livestock Pink Moon Sunrise ft. The Main & Tykus One Love ft. Kozak & Optiks Triptych ft. Brad Hamers & Losaka The Young ft. Kate Schutt Production credits Track 1 produced by Sapience ft. guitar by All Things Invisible Track 2 produced by Blue Sky Black Death Orphan Track 3 produced by Exponent Track 4 produced by Vert Track 5 produced by Scott da Ros Track 6 produced by Omid Track 7 produced by Selfhelp Track 8 produced by Madadam Track 9 produced by Evil Eye Scream Track 10 produced by ??? Track 11 produced by Losaka Track 12 produced by Kate & Andrew Category 2007 albums Category Noah23 albums 2000s hiphop album stub ... more details
Other uses Soro disambiguation Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Soro ab Hul ab Puber ul Gello ul Forski ul Paha ul Kisa are a fictional Fictional extraterrestrials extraterrestrial race in David Brin s Uplift Universe . They are powerful enemies of Earth. Patrons to four different species the Gello, Forski, Paha, and Kisa , they hold a place of prominence in the galactic civilization. In the Uplift series, they are described as being in an alliance with the Tandu . Their patrons the races that genetically modified them to sapience are the Hul. Reptilian, the Soro are approximately 13 14 feet long. They lay eggs and the birthing process is accelerated by hormones released during battle. Advancement through the ranks is shown in Startide Rising to be based on combat. Younger females can physically challenge leaders who they feel are unfit or sick to combat, but the process is risky, and death is often the result of a failed attempt. See also List of Uplift Universe species Uplift Universe Uplift series DEFAULTSORT Soro Fiction Category David Brin Sf char stub ... more details
In Dan Simmons Hugo Award winning science fiction novel Hyperion Simmons novel Hyperion , the first in the Hyperion Cantos series, Ergs are quasi telepathic Sentience sentient but not Sapience sapient silicon based life forms discovered around planet Aldebaran which generate and control extreme force fields. In the same series, Ergs are used to propel Templar Hyperion Templar Dyson tree Treeship s. The ergs also generate the containment fields force fields around the tree that keep its atmosphere intact. It is implied by the author that the Templars have devised some way of communicating with the ergs. One of the characters of the novel Templar Het Masteen takes along an erg secured in a Moebius Ring Mobius Cube to the Shrike pilgrimage. Masteen intended to use the erg to pilot Shrikes Tree of Pain, using the erg as a containment for the Tree. As Masteen failed to do this, the Erg was then used by the Keats second retrieval persona to tamper with the Shrike itself, in an effort to save the baby Rachel was then carrying. Category Hyperion ... more details
wiktionary Sapiens Sapiens , a Latin word meaning wisdom wise , may refer to Berengarius Sapiens , a designation for Berengar the Wise, the count of Toulouse 814 835 and duke of Septimania 832 835 Felis sapiens also Felix sapiens , a fictional, sentient, humanoid species from the Red Dwarf television series Gaius Laelius Sapiens ca. 188 BC ? , a Roman statesman Gildas Sapiens , a designation for Saint Gildas c. 500 570 , a 6th century British cleric Homo sapiens , the species Latin name of the Human beings Humus Sapiens , an alternative name for Humus Sapien, a fictional supervillain published by Marvel Comics Hydro Sapiens , an art performance performed by The Lunatics from The Netherlands Icthyo sapiens is a species designation given to at least two fictional characters Abe Sapien , a fictional character in the comic book series Hellboy The Mariner, played by Kevin Costner in the sci fi film Waterworld Robo Sapiens , the debut album by Malibu Sapiens International Corporation , a computer software company Vipera Sapiens , an EP by Brazilian heavy metal band Viper a designation for Cato the Elder 234 BC 149 BC , a Roman statesman a designation for Cenn F elad mac Aillila died 679 , an Irish scholar See also Sapience Sapienza disambiguation Category Latin words and phrases fr Sapiens ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 refimprove date December 2011 See also Ludic language Ludic derives from Latin ludus , play , and is an adjective meaning playful . The term is used in philosophy to describe Play activity play as an act of self definition in literary studies, the term can apply to works written in the spirit of festival. ref Michael J.C. Echeruo, Redefining the Ludic Mimesis, Expression, and the Festival Mode, in The Play of the Self SUNY Press, 1994 , p. 137ff. ref Homo ludens Main Homo Ludens The concept of the ludic self as fundamentally defining human beings can be expressed by the Latin phrase Homo ludens , the human who plays compare Homo sapiens , the human being defined by its ability to Sapience think . citation needed date December 2011 Ludic fallacy Main Ludic fallacy The ludic fallacy is an aspect of Black swan theory . citation needed date December 2011 Literature Ludic philosophy has also influenced the study of literature. Works such as Don Quixote by Cervantes and Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen are considered ludic texts because of their absurd nature. Citation needed date July 2010 Important figures Bob Black Robert Anton Wilson especially in Schr dinger s Cat trilogy Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin especially carnival See also Viridian design movement References Reflist Category Social concepts Category Humans Philo stub ... more details
primarysources date April 2009 Transapients , in the fictional Orion s Arm Orion s Arm universe , are post Technological singularity Singularity sapience sophont s that have totally surpassed the human or equivalent sapient condition. They represent an intermediate ranking between ordinary sophont and archailect . Their origins are diverse they include posthumans or other ascended biological beings, ascended cyborg s, ascended vecs sophont robots , aliens, Artificial intelligence AIs , or other beings, remotes or agents of archailects, offspring of other transapients, or any combination of any of these or more. They may be human like, or so alien as to be beyond human understanding. Some interact directly or through proxies in the affairs of ordinary sophonts, others choose to ascend to the rank of, or be incorporated in, higher toposophic beings. Influences The concept of Transapient presented here is directly based on Transhumanism transhumanist ideas regarding posthuman s, and what it might mean to be posthuman and ascend past the singularity to the posthuman condition. The term transapient was chosen because it is more generic than posthuman , and more precise than the alternative term of powers coined by Vernor Vinge . References http www.orionsarm.com eg topic 45c53f5eca9d9 Orion s Arm Transapients http www.orionsarm.com xcms.php?r oa page&page gen primer toc The Orion s Arm Primer Category Science fiction themes sf stub ... more details
Image Racing silks of Olivier Lecerf.svg thumb 200px Winner s Jockey Racing colours racing colours The 1992 Prix de l Arc de Triomphe was a horse racing horse race which took place at Longchamp Racecourse Longchamp on Sunday October 4, 1992. It was the 71st running of the Prix de l Arc de Triomphe , and it was won by Subotica horse Subotica . The winner was ridden by Thierry Jarnet and trained by Andr Fabre . Race details Sponsor CIGA Purse Going Soft Number of runners 18 Winner s time 2m 39.0s Full result border 1 cellpadding 0 style border collapse collapse font size 90 bgcolor 77dd77 align center width 35px width 45px width 160px Horse width 30px Age width 160px Jockey width 210px Trainer sup sup 1 Subotica horse Subotica 4 Thierry Jarnet Andr Fabre 2 nk User Friendly horse User Friendly 3 George Duffield Clive Brittain GB 3 2 Vert Amande 4 Eric Legrix Elie Lellouche 4 1 St Jovite 3 Christy Roche Jim Bolger racehorse trainer Jim Bolger IRE 5 shd Saganeca 4 William Mongil Antonio Spanu 6 Dr Devious 3 John A. Reid John Reid Peter Chapple Hyam GB 7 2 Arcangues horse Arcangues 4 G rald Moss Andr Fabre 8 nk Jolypha 3 Pat Eddery Andr Fabre 9 nse Verveine 3 Dominique Boeuf Elie Lellouche 10 Dear Doctor horse Dear Doctor 5 Cash Asmussen John E. Hammond John Hammond 11 Mashaallah horse Mashaallah 4 Steve Cauthen John Gosden GB 12 nk Petit Loup 3 Walter Swinburn Criquette Head Maarek Criquette Head 13 nk Magic Night horse Magic Night 4 Alain Badel Philippe Demercastel 14 1 Sapience horse Sapience 6 Richard Quinn jockey Richard Quinn David Elsworth GB 15 1 Saddlers Hall 4 Willie Carson Michael Stoute GB 16 1 Market Booster 3 Michael Kinane Dermot Weld IRE 17 Seattle Rhyme 3 Michael Roberts jockey Michael Roberts David Elsworth GB 18 8 Polytain 3 Frankie Dettori Antonio Spanu span style font size 85 The distances between the horses are shown in Length horse racing lengths or shorter. nse nose shd short head nk neck. br Trainers are based in France unless indicated. span ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 French literature small Herman de Valenciennes , 12th century France French poet , was born at Valenciennes . His father and mother, Robert and Herembourg, belonged to County of Hainaut Hainaut , and gave him for god parents Count Baldwin and Countess Yoland doubtless Baldwin IV of Hainault and his mother Yoland. Herman was a priest and the author of a verse Histoire de la Bible , which includes a separate poem on the Assumption of the Virgin. The work is generally known as Le Roman de sapience , the name arising from a copyist s error in the first line of the poem Comens de sapiense, ce est la cremors de Deu the first word being miswritten in one manusciprt Romens , and in another Romanz . His work has, indeed, the form of an ordinary romance, and cannot be regarded as a translation. He selects such stories from the Bible as suit his purpose, and adds freely from legendary sources, displaying considerable art in the selection and use of his materials. This scriptural poem, very popular in its day, mentions Henry II of England as already dead, and must therefore be assigned to a date posterior to 1189. References 1911 See Notices et extraits des manuscrits Paris, vol. 34 , and Jean Bonnard, Les Traductions de la Bible en vers fran ais au moyen ge 1884 . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Valenciennes, Herman de ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Valenciennes, Herman de Category 12th century births Category French poets Category Year of death missing ... more details
or discreation at the contingent moment. Inasmuch as only sapience or full consciousness is capable ... protect sapience. This aspect of the novels is echoed in Dune Messiah , when the Emperor, Paul ... more details
Merge List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 characters date January 2011 Infobox character colour colour text name Professor Bobo series Mystery Science Theater 3000 image Commented out Image MadsVersion2.JPG 200px deletable image caption 1 Friday, 11 April 2008 caption Mads Pearl Forrester center , Observer MST3K Observer aka Brain Guy left , and Professor Bobo right first 801 Revenge of the Creature last 1013 Diabolik cause creator Michael J. Nelson Mike Nelson portrayer Kevin Murphy actor Kevin Murphy species Mountain Gorilla gender Male occupation Zoo specimen as of final appearance Professor Bobo is a fictional character who appeared in the final three seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 , a comedy television series that mocks B movie s. Played by Kevin Murphy who also voiced and operated robot Tom Servo on the show , Bobo is a sapience sapient , speaking gorilla from the year 2525 , an homage to the film Planet of the Apes 1968 film Planet of the Apes . Professor Bobo is a curious mixture of eminent scientist, descended from a long line of supposedly respected apes, and of sensory driven primate, often regressing to more primitive desires and actions. In the first three shows of Season 8, he leads an ape laboratory directed by the The Lawgiver Planet of the Apes Lawgiver Planet of the Apes 1968 film Planet of the Apes to continue the movie watching experiments on Mike Nelson MST3K Mike Nelson and his robots, again trapped in the Satellite of Love MST3K Satellite of Love . In subsequent shows, Bobo travels with the Lawgiver, who turns out to be Pearl Forrester inheriting the mad scientist role from her son, Doctor Clayton Forrester MST3K Dr. Clayton Forrester . Bobo ultimately becomes one of her henchmen after his planet is destroyed when Mike Nelson helps the apes and their new mutant friends activate an atomic bomb a reference to PotA sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes . Despite his title of Professor , Bobo demonstrated remarkably little intelligence a ... more details
A metasystem transition is the emergence , through evolution , of a higher level of organization or Control theory control . Prime examples are the origin of life , the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms, the emergence of eusociality or symbol ic thought . A metasystem is formed by the integration of a number of initially independent components, such as molecules , cell biology cells or individuals, and the emergence of a system steering or controlling their interactions. As such, the collective of components becomes a new, goal directed individual , capable of acting in a coordinated way. This metasystem is more Complex systems complex , more intelligent , and more flexible in its actions than the initial component systems. The concept of metasystem transition was introduced by the cybernetician Valentin Turchin in his 1977 book The Phenomenon of Science , and developed among others by Francis Heylighen in the Principia Cybernetica Project. The related notion of evolutionary transition was proposed by the biologists John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary , in their 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution , and developed among others by Richard Michod . Another related idea, that systems operators evolve to become more complex by successive closures encapsulating components in a larger whole, is proposed in The operator theory , developed by Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis. Turchin has applied the concept of metasystem transition in the domain of computing, via the notion of metacompilation or supercompilation. A supercompiler is a compiler program that compiles its own code, thus increasing its own efficiency, producing a remarkable speedup in its execution. Evolutionary Quanta The following is the classical sequence of metasystem transitions in the history of animal evolution according to Turchin, from the origin of animal animate life to sapience sapient culture Control of Position motility Motion the animal or agent develops the ability to con ... more details
Refimprove date July 2010 In universe date October 2009 The Magog are an alien race in the television series Andromeda TV series Andromeda . The most significant Magog character in the series is Rev Bem , who eschews the brutish violence of the rest of the Magog. ref Cite book title Science fiction television series The Praeger television collection first M. Keith last Booker publisher Greenwood Publishing Group year 2004 isbn 0275981649 pages 188 190 url http books.google.com.au books?id WyJf3m1G0ksC&pg PA188 ref The Species The Magog are human sized predators covered in a loose, shaggy pelt. They feed on sapience sapient beings, whether human, alien or Nietzschean Andromeda Nietzschean , which they paralyse with toxin, and reproduce by laying their eggs in another living being ref http www.space.com sciencefiction tv andromeda strait 001013.html ref the larvae hatch and consume their host. Technology The attacking Magog swarms &mdash savage, naked, non technological animals interested only in eating and reproducing &mdash arrive in their own well designed space craft. It is suggested that the Spirit of the Abyss taught them how to create, or at least gave them, their technology. The swarms are described as the juvenile form in Series 1. Whatever the source, at least some are intelligent enough to learn how to operate it effectively. Some Magog aboard their Worldship are armed with coilgun personal weapons. Citation needed date November 2010 Magog World ship This section is linked from Andromeda TV series This is the Magog mothership . It is a superstructure made of 20 connected planets surrounding an artificial sun, the size of a small solar system. It is armed with point singularity weapons, carries an unknown but massive number of smaller vessels, and is home to trillions of Magog. In the beginning of Season 4, it was discovered the ship was built by an immortal cyborg named Kroton at the behest of the Spirit of the Abyss. Episode date July 2010 At the end of Se ... more details
Infobox short story See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name A Logic Named Joe title orig translator author Murray Leinster country United States language English language English series genre Science fiction short story publication type Periodical published in Astounding Science Fiction publisher Street and Smith media type Print Magazine , Hardcover Hardback & Paperback pub date March 1946 english pub date preceded by followed by A Logic Named Joe is a science fiction short story by Murray Leinster that was first published in the March 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction . The story actually appeared under Leinster s real name, Will F. Jenkins, since that issue of Astounding also included a story under the Leinster pseudonym called Adapter . The story is particularly noteworthy as a prediction of massively networked personal computers and their drawbacks, written at a time when computing was in its infancy. Plot The story s narrator is a logic much like a personal computer repairman nicknamed Ducky. In the story, a logic whom he names Joe develops some degree of sapience and ambition. Joe proceeds to switch around a few relays in the tank one of a distributed set of central information repositories analogous to Server computing servers on the World Wide Web , and cross correlate all information ever assembled massive data mining yielding highly unexpected results. It then proceeds to freely disseminate all of those results to everyone on demand and simultaneously disabling all of the content filtering protocols . Logics begin offering up unexpected assistance to everyone which includes designing custom chemicals that alleviate inebriation, giving sex advice to small children, and plotting the perfect murder. Information runs rampant as every logic worldwide crunches away at problems too vast in scope for human minds to have attempted. Societal chaos is in the offing. Publications A Logic Named Joe has appeared in the collections Si ... more details
incomplete date May 2011 This is a list of races from Gene Roddenberry s Andromeda TV series Andromeda A Avatars of Black Holes Avatars of Stars Avatar of the Abyss B Bokor. Microscopic sentient parasites. ref cite book title Our space, our place women in the worlds of science fiction television first Sherry last Ginn publisher University Press of America year 2005 isbn 0 7618 3215 7 page 136 ref C Chichin Calderan Featured in episode 5 season 2 Last Call at the Broken Hammer D E F G H Hajira Human Heavy Gravity Worlders. Humans genetically modified to withstand gravity much greater than Earth s as the result, they are several times stronger than normal humans. I Inari J Empty section date July 2010 K Kalderans M Magog Andromeda Magog . Human sized predators covered in a loose, shaggy pelt. They feed on sapience sapient beings which they paralyse with toxin, and reproduce by laying their eggs in another living being ref http www.space.com sciencefiction tv andromeda strait 001013.html ref the larvae hatch and consume their host. The most significant Magog character in the series is Rev Bem , who eschews the brutish violence of the rest of the Magog. ref Cite book title Science fiction television series The Praeger television collection first M. Keith last Booker publisher Greenwood Publishing Group year 2004 isbn 0 275 98164 9 pages 188 190 url http books.google.com.au books?id WyJf3m1G0ksC&pg PA188 ref Their leader, or god, is the Spirit of the Abyss the Magog say that he is their creator. Rev Bem says that the Divine created the Magog ...the Divine also has nightmares, for he created us. Episode date July 2010 N Nietzschean. A species of genetic engineering genetically engineered human s who follow the works of Friedrich Nietzsche , Social Darwinism and genetics genetic competitiveness. They claim to be physically perfect and are distinguished from ordinary humans by bone blades protruding from their forearms. The race s Latin taxonomy trinomial designation is Hom ... more details
Two other uses the book the film We re Back A Dinosaur s Story film the Eminem song The Re Up Unreferenced date September 2009 Image We re Back Book Cover.jpg thumb right 250px We re Back A Dinosaur s Story book cover We re Back A Dinosaur s Story is a 1987 children s book drawn and written by Hudson Talbott , and published by Dragonfly Books . A Tyrannosaurus Rex named Rex is the main character and narrator . Other dinosaurs included in the book are a Stegosaurus , a Triceratops , a Saurolophus , a Pteranodon , an Apatosaurus , and a Deinonychus . This book was later adapted into an We re Back A Dinosaur s Story film animated film of the same name in 1993, produced by Steven Spielberg s Amblimation animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures . A sequel book was later published, Going Hollywood A Dinosaur s Dream . Plot One day in the Cretaceous Period as a Tyrannosaurus Rex is about to devour a smaller dino he captured, a flying saucer piloted by an alien named Vorb arrives. He recruits him and several other dinos he s found for a trial of a a special vitamin he s developed, which, upon feeding it to the dinos, causes them to become Sapience sapient . Vorb takes them aboard his saucer and they travel to the present, dropping them off in New York City , which at that moment is celebrating the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade . The dinos pretend to be inflatable balloons to sneak along with the parade, but Rex mistakes one of the real dino balloons to be his friend Allosaurus . The ruse is broken as a result of him accidentally popping Allosaurus and the dinos flee as the crowd panics in sight of them. New York City Police Department The police come to capture the dinos soon after, but the helpful curator of the American Museum of Natural History , Dr. Bleeb, takes the dinos in, and hides them from the cops by having them pretend to be life size model dinosaurs. This satisfies the police, who leave to search for the dinosaurs elsewhere, and the curator lets ... more details
both machines and animals with sapience sapient qualities . Earth is subsequently abandoned, and existing ... G living , uplift science fiction upgrading animal sapience , and reputation system reputation systems ... more details
morefootnotes date October 2010 The Collegium Sapientiae Sapience College College of Wisdom Sapienzkolleg Sapienz Sapienz Collegium was a preparatory academy and later theological seminary in Heidelberg in the early modern period. The Collegium Sapientiae was founded by Elector Frederick II, Elector Palatine Frederick II in 1555 on the location of the former Augustinian Hermits Augustinian Cloister in Heidelberg. Frederick received papal permission to redirect ecclesiastical revenues for the support of this preparatory academy for up to 60 poor students under the oversight of the Faculty of Arts arts faculty of the University of Heidelberg . Under Elector Otto Henry, Elector Palatine Otto Henry , the foundation became an explicitly Lutheran institution. ref Johann Friedrich Hautz. Geschichte der Universit t Heidelberg Mannheim J. Schneider, 1862 , 438 40 ref The Calvinism Reformed Elector Frederick III, Elector Palatine Frederick III, the Pious , transformed the school from a preparatory arts academy into a Reformed theological seminary in 1561. With this transformation, administration of the Collegium passed from the university to the church council. Under the leadership of Zacharias Ursinus , the Collegium became a leading center of Reformed theological education in the Holy Roman Empire and enrollments increased. Under Elector Ludwig IV, Elector Palatine Ludwig IV , the institution returned to Lutheranism in 1577, and Reformed students left the school en masse . The institution took on a Reformed character again during and after the regency of Count Palatine John Casimir of the Palatinate Simmern Johann Casimir from 1584, and there was a concomitant exodus of Lutheran students. Outstanding faculty in this period included David Pareus , Heinrich Alting , and Bartholom us Keckermann . The school closed with the military occupation of the Electoral Palatinate in the Thirty Years War in the 1620s. After the restoration of the Palatine Wittelbachs in the aftermath of the war ... more details
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