In your uplift series, there are several earth species which eventually achieve sentience. It seems like with all the attention that SETI gets looking for Extra-Terrestrial intelligence that the futurist community often forgets that we have several good candidates for sentience on our own planet.
What are your thoughts on developing the intelligence of these species? Should we interfere or leave them to go on as they have? Or, rather, should we expand our ideas surrounding sentience to encompass these species (thinking mainly of cetaceans and other greater apes)?
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In your uplift series, there are several earth species which eventually achieve sentience. It seems like with all the attention that SETI gets looking for Extra-Terrestrial intelligence that the futurist community often forgets that we have several good candidates for sentience on our own planet.
What are your thoughts on developing the intelligence of these species? Should we interfere or leave them to go on as they have? Or, rather, should we expand our ideas surrounding sentience to encompass these species (thinking mainly of cetaceans and other greater apes)?
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