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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:58, 17 September 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Spontaneous Sentience]] is the phenomenon of sudden, ephemeral [[wikipedia:sentience|sentience]] being generated absent from a [[wikipedia:brain|brain]] whether [[wikipedia:Biology|biological]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence|artificial]], or [[wikipedia:Boltzmann brain|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">otherwise</del>]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Spontaneous Sentience]] is the phenomenon of sudden, ephemeral [[wikipedia:sentience|sentience]] being generated absent from a [[wikipedia:brain|brain]] whether [[wikipedia:Biology|biological]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence|artificial]], or [[wikipedia:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Brain in a vat|otherwise]].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The underlying idea behind [[Spontaneous Sentience]] is that sentient experience is ultimately an [[wikipedia:emergence|emergent phenomenon]] generated by the complex interactions of [[wikipedia:Neurotransmission|neuronal activity]] and [[wikipedia:Electroencephalography|electrical signals]] in the brain.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In theory, it may be possible to generate a spontaneous and isolated sentient experience if the complex pattern of activity necessary can occur independent of a brain.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If [[Spontaneous Sentience]] is possible, it is expected to be decay extremely quickly as without the mechanics of a brain to continue generating this sentience, the pattern is unlikely to last long in the manner necessary for the sentience to exist.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Quantum Fields ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Spontaneous Sentience]] is expected if sentience ultimately stems from a [[wikipedia:Quasiparticle|quasiparticle]] field which we termed the [[Experion]] field. As with other [[wikipedia:Quantum mechanics|quantum]] quasiparticles, the necessary complex interactions of other fields result in the emergent quasiparticle and it associated emergent phenomenon (in this case, sentience).</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This topic is also discussed in greater detail in [[Eternitas Ex Campis]] where quantum fields are identified as a possible [[Methods of Eternity|Method of Eternity]].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Boltzmann Brain ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While this concept may sound similar to a [[wikipedia:Boltzmann Brain|</ins>Boltzmann <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Brain]], the phenomenon of [[Spontaneous Sentience]] would occur independent of a </ins>brain<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. They are however similar in that the concept arises from the expectation that the unimaginable variety and complexity in how [[wikipedia:particle|particles]] and [[wikipedia:energy</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">energy</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interact in the universe should result in the same brain activity necessary for sentience without a brain</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See Also ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See Also ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{seealso|}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{seealso|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Experior Ergo Sum]], [[Experion]], [[Eternitas Ex Campis]], [[Tempus Vitae]]</ins>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Seealsowiki|[[wikipedia:sentience|Sentience]], [[wikipedia:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Artificial intelligence</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Artificial Intelligence</del>]], [[wikipedia:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">brain</del>|Brain]], [[wikipedia:Boltzmann Brain|Boltzmann Brain]]}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Seealsowiki|[[wikipedia:sentience|Sentience]], [[wikipedia:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quantum mechanics|Quantum Mechanics]], [[wikipedia:emergence|Emergence]], [[wikipedia:Neurotransmission|Neurotransmission]], [[wikipedia:Electroencephalography</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Electroencephalography</ins>]], [[wikipedia:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Brain in a vat</ins>|Brain <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in a Vat]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence|Artificial Intelligence</ins>]], [[wikipedia:Boltzmann Brain|Boltzmann Brain]]}}</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/index.php/Spontaneous_Sentience" title="Spontaneous Sentience">Spontaneous Sentience</a> is the phenomenon of sudden, ephemeral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sentience" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:sentience">sentience</a> being generated absent from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brain" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:brain">brain</a> whether <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Biology">biological</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Artificial intelligence">artificial</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Boltzmann brain">otherwise</a>. == See Also == {{seealso|}} {{Seealsowiki|<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sentience" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:sentience">Sentience</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Artificial intelligence">Artificial Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brain" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:brain">Brain</a>, wikipedia:Bol...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Spontaneous Sentience]] is the phenomenon of sudden, ephemeral [[wikipedia:sentience|sentience]] being generated absent from a [[wikipedia:brain|brain]] whether [[wikipedia:Biology|biological]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence|artificial]], or [[wikipedia:Boltzmann brain|otherwise]].<br /> <br /> == See Also ==<br /> {{seealso|}}<br /> <br /> {{Seealsowiki|[[wikipedia:sentience|Sentience]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wikipedia:brain|Brain]], [[wikipedia:Boltzmann Brain|Boltzmann Brain]]}}</div>

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