Social Do All Humans Experience Sentience the Same Way?

[Why did you]

Is it possible that not all humans are truly sentient in the way we understand it? Or at least, could some people experience a significantly reduced or different form of sentience?

When we look at the world, with all the violence, wars, exploitation, and indifference to suffering, it becomes hard to understand how people can commit or tolerate such acts if they are fully conscious and feeling beings. Is this all just a result of ideology and conditioning? Or is there something deeper going on, like a lack of inner experience, empathy, or moral awareness?

Philosophers and scientists still debate what consciousness really is and how it works. So maybe it is not so far-fetched to ask whether there could be people who seem human on the outside but lack the rich inner world most of us assume everyone has.

I am not trying to dehumanize anyone or make harsh judgments. I am just opening up a space to explore the idea from a philosophical and psychological perspective.

What do you think?
Is sentience something every human truly has?
Could people who commit horrible acts lack some key part of awareness or empathy?
Do we too easily assume that everyone feels and experiences life in the same deep way?

 

[I Am Legion]

We already know as humans we do not. We have autistic people all over the spectrum that experience things differently. We know many of the most vile serial killers lack empathy and have personality disorders that make them see the world differently. They are even proving now many Trans and Gender fluid people are autistic.

 

[Captain Tenneal]

I usually take in information at 1mb per second

 

[philcrow]

It's all of the above. All factors go into shaping human behavior. We are all not the same, and that's clear. We walk on 2 legs and need to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom. But beyond that races, religion, cultures, and people are very different, and it's probably the reason borders existed in the 1st place.

 

[Stoic1]

I look at you all as NPCs in a world designed specifically for me.

Is that wrong?

 

[Trabaho]

War is an event to make money and get rid of all the psyhopaths before they hurt and rape someone outside the battlezone.

 

[Trabaho]

I look at you all as NPCs in a world designed specifically for me.

Is that wrong?

You're not a multi milionarie. So doesn't work.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Is it possible that not all humans are truly sentient in the way we understand it? Or at least, could some people experience a significantly reduced or different form of sentience?

When we look at the world, with all the violence, wars, exploitation, and indifference to suffering, it becomes hard to understand how people can commit or tolerate such acts if they are fully conscious and feeling beings. Is this all just a result of ideology and conditioning? Or is there something deeper going on, like a lack of inner experience, empathy, or moral awareness?

Philosophers and scientists still debate what consciousness really is and how it works. So maybe it is not so far-fetched to ask whether there could be people who seem human on the outside but lack the rich inner world most of us assume everyone has.

I am not trying to dehumanize anyone or make harsh judgments. I am just opening up a space to explore the idea from a philosophical and psychological perspective.

What do you think?
Is sentience something every human truly has?
Could people who commit horrible acts lack some key part of awareness or empathy?
Do we too easily assume that everyone feels and experiences life in the same deep way?

Well some people are not developed mentally as well as others, so those people would have somewhat a different perspective of life.

 

[Why did you]

It's all of the above. All factors go into shaping human behavior. We are all not the same, and that's clear. We walk on 2 legs and need to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom. But beyond that races, religion, cultures, and people are very different, and it's probably the reason borders existed in the 1st place.

Thats sad ,something is off with the border concept
We are so tiny as humans and the planet we exist on is also micro small compared to the universe

 

[Fox by the Sea]

there;s people that gave no internal monologue. blew my mind when i first heard it, since i thought everybody's got the voice in their head. some people it appears have nothing. there's no way they perceive the world the same. and it's like half of the world or more.

 

[Legumes]

there;s people that gave no internal monologue. blew my mind when i first heard it, since i thought everybody's got the voice in their head. some people it appears have nothing. there's no way they perceive the world the same. and it's like half of the world or more.

Another one that's interesting: Aphantasia - the inability to voluntarily visualize mental imagery.

 

[jimbob27]

It's been proven people's brains adapt to recognise speech patterns in their native language and related ones much better than ones that are totally unrelated. Our brains all start the same, but the changes happen as we learn our first language and are with us for life. It's one of the reasons certain accents come through much stronger than other ones in people speaking English as a second language. It's much harder for a Asian person to nail the accent than it is for somebody who's native language is Dutch or French.

I expect most of us have met somebody with a difficult to pronounce name like Nguyen, and no matter how many times you try and pronouce it back to them, they're never satisfied with the way you're saying it, even when you feel like you're repeating exactly the same sounds that they are.

 

[Jose Beehive]

Last I head the universe itself could be "Made out of consciousness"

 

[mb23100]

I look at you all as NPCs in a world designed specifically for me.

Is that wrong?

BMW driver confirmed

 

[badascan]

No. We could be held to and expect the same minimal standards though...

 

[KeepingItReal]

How the fuck would we know? We don't have access to others' experiences.

 

[Meatspin]

Judging by the quality of some posts here, I would say not lol

 

[ezikel315]

Obviously not. There are people who think it's perfectly fine to rape and kill children. It's a mindset I just cannot understand but plenty of people out there are like this.

People operate on different levels of consciousness. It's easy to focus on those who operate at a lower level, who act like chimps in clothes, but I wonder what it's like to be more elevated.

 

[GSP_37]

I grew up reading comics, so I probably think more slowly due to thinking in full sentences like comic book thought bubbles.

 

[Joe Mama]

I think you are touching on a fundamental truth here but trying to dhelve deeper into the weeds and the "Why" behind it.

We as humans are kind of 'programmed' this way (being the curious and exploratory beings we are) and this in fact is a part of our evolution.

However - the simplest explanation I can offer is this basic fundamental/cosmic/basic/universal truth.

Good/Evil
Yin/Yang
Ones/Zeros
On/Off
Light/Dark

You get the picture.

While we strive to be forward moving ('normally' towards the former) and struggle to 'understand' the latter.

One cannot exist without the other. And while I may not "like or agree" with X, Y, or Z - I have to maintain a level of respect for it.

So take that into consideration when you are trying to wrap your brain around some shit that makes you say "I just don't fucking get it!" - You aren't supposed to...

Sometimes the lessons learned are just about as much of what you *Shouldn't* do, as well as what you should.

I had a dream about this in which *I* was God.
That was the lesson at the end, and it hit me like a ton of bricks - of affirmation.