nonsapient

Cruelty to nonsapient animals is definitely not an issue I associate with creeping fascism.

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To the nonsapient animal, every experience is either totally novel or identical with some remem-bered experience.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

Ruth Ortheris is doing the same, only she's working on the line of instinct and conditioned reflexes and nonsapient, single-stage rea'soning.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

"Association of otherwise dissimilar things because of some ap-parent similarity is a recognized element of nonsapient animal behav-ior."

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

'T we depict sapient mentation as an iceberg, we might depict nonsapient mentation as the sunlight reflected from its surface.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

The nonsapient mind deals exclusively with crude sensory ma. 'terial.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

This is a considerably less exact analogy; while the nonsapient mind deals, consciously, with nothing but present sense data, there is a consid-erable absorption and re-emission of subconscious memories.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

When confronted by some entirely novel situation, a nonsapient animal will think, but never consciously.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

"Do you mean that nonsapient animals aren't conscious, or do you mean they don't think?"

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

"Dr. Mallin," the oldest of the three judges, who sat in the middle, began, "what, in your professional opinion, is the difference between sapient and nonsapient mentation?"

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962