The Empire also has slaves, so it’s a wash IMO. Bounty hunters don’t count to differentiate, they’d work for the Rebels just as easily.
Now, if either side paid their non-freelancing droids a living wage, that’d make it easier to tell who the good guys were…
The Rebel Alliance was fightin’ for Systems’ Rights, and against the Empire’s unjust tariff policies!
And droids are happy servin’ their masters, everyone knows that! Why, poor C3PO would be heartbroken if some outside agitator from some big-city planet like Coruscant tried to take him away from his beloved Master Luke!
Previous generations grappled with these issues while watching the animals pressed into service as household appliances on the Flintstones. Perhaps the droids resign themselves to thinking, “it’s a living.”
And Catherine Bach in a gold bikini as “Cousin” Leia?
I could have tried to photoshop something like this, but I just assumed that it already existed on the internet and wasn’t disappointed.
He never said that.
Jar-Jar is unquestionably SENTIENT. All animals are sentient.
May I throw in here that I thought that was the funniest line in that entire movie?
Wait, did you mean sentient as in intelligent? :smack:
No, I don’t think they are.
Roger Roger.
Once more, with feeling: Sentience **IS NOT **Intelligence! The OP is clearly using it in the correct sense, too.
Were they aware of their environments and able to react to stimuli in that environment? Unquestionably. But that’s also not a big deal. The OP is clearly referring to something else, but people are notoriously sloppy about defining just what that “something else” is.
The OP was pretty clear that to them, sentience was synonymous with self awareness.
Yes, we can dive down a rabbit hole of what “is” is, but the OP was not “sloppy”
That’s also not sentience.
OK, now define self-awareness.
First, you define “define”.
I feel this was settled, in passing, back on Page One: however you define sentience, or anything else, it’s the thing that I freely grant that you have while I’m having this chat with you. And, as far as I can tell, you’d do likewise for me; and, as far as I can tell, Threepio would do just fine compared to either of us in a Turing test.
Whatever we’re doing to convince one another, it looks like he’s got it too.
OK, if you put a discolored smudge on Threepio’s forehead, and showed him a mirror, would he attempt to wipe the smudge off? That’s the best test anyone’s ever been able to come up with for anything that might be called “self-awareness”, and I don’t think anyone doubts that Threepio would pass that test.
I thought R2D2 handled maintenance.
There’s a great short scene in the Rebels episode “Twin Suns” in which Ezra decides he needs to cross the open desert. Chopper doesn’t want to. Ezra tells him he can follow the hills (filled with Sand people) and probably find a town.
Chopper looks at hills, back at Ezra, back at hills, back at Ezra, gives a great frustrated sigh, slumping over very human like before following Ezra.
The mirror test is a bit flawed or inconclusive, though - I mean, *gorillas *maybe don’t pass, but pigeons and some ants do…
