Subject: sentience? Posted Jun 8, 2002 by Alex 195614 As everyone else seems to like incredibly long names I keep mine ironically short.		Post: 1

Do you think dolphins are sentient?

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Subject: sentience? Posted Jun 8, 2002 by DaliLlama 196093 This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 2

How broadly does one define sentience? for instance, dolphins are obviously not tool-users, which has often been considered a requirement.

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Subject: sentience? Posted Jun 8, 2002 by DaliLlama 196093 This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 3

How broadly does one define sentience? for instance, dolphins are obviously not tool-users, which has often been considered a requirement.

Subject: sentience? Posted Jun 8, 2002 by Noggin the Nog This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 4

Of COURSE dolphins are sentient. We may spend all our lives mucking about in the sea having a good time instead of mastering the black arts of tool using, but why would we need stuff like fire and wheels anyway?

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Subject: sentience? Posted Jun 8, 2002 by Alex 195614 As everyone else seems to like incredibly long names I keep mine ironically short. This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 5

check out my article on it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A761735

Subject: sentience? Posted Jun 21, 2005 by Eclipse1967 This is a reply to this Posting.		Post: 6

umm.... latest news is that they do have some tool using abilities

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