Why does Data consider Spot not a sentient being?

[exodus]

Yes. My bad you were asking for proof and no one provided...other than stating "By law" which I had a link to already in the thread.

Then you say you don't live in Europe???

If I've already said I don't live in Europe & European law doesn't apply to me, how does this change?

It doesn't but your comment doesn't make sense. Should you have said it isn't the law within the country I live in?

You understood it well enough.

 

[Trekker4747]

Cats are sentient. (But not by the 24th century definition Data gives.)

Cats, however, are not sapient.

 

[The Trekster]

Is your cat aware of who he is? Would he he recognize himself in a mirror? Does he know his place in the world and in the universe? Does he know the difference between himself and another cat it meets on the street? Most animals are not self-aware. They only function on instinct and have no higher brain functions.

Cats, and most animals, cannot create art, music or understand or even grasp the concept of science. A cat is never going to contemplate the structure of an atom, the origins of life or write a poem. In those respects a cat is a rock.

You have made no statements that cannot be applied to many humans.

Are you saying that not all humans are sentient, but that it takes a true understanding of 'what your place in the universe' is, having an education in science, or being talented and creative?

Minus the creativity and education part, that sounds a bit to me like some garbage proffered by religion.

 

[The Trekster]

You folks are funny.

Cats are not sentient.
To be sentient as many have said is to be aware of ones self and the world around them. I am a human male, living in northern New Jersey, on the contenitent of American on the planet Earth. That is being self aware, cats know nothing of the world or that they even exist on a planet much less what's beyond the backyard. I can't even believe such a point is being debated.

Yes but you are not self aware enough to know that your girlfriend is cheating on you.

Who's not sentient now?

 

[exodus]

You folks are funny.

Cats are not sentient.
To be sentient as many have said is to be aware of ones self and the world around them. I am a human male, living in northern New Jersey, on the contenitent of American on the planet Earth. That is being self aware, cats know nothing of the world or that they even exist on a planet much less what's beyond the backyard. I can't even believe such a point is being debated.

Yes but you are not self aware enough to know that your girlfriend is cheating on you.

Who's not sentient now?

I knew.

I guess you found the body.

 

[Deckerd]

You pay for your girlfriend's credit cards? Jeez. Where were you when I was a student?

 

[The Trekster]

I knew.

I guess you found the body.