The debate about the future of Digitized Intelligence often incorrectly centers on the question of Sentience. For the record, Sentience is defined in terms of feelings, perceptions, and emotions, attributes that even the lowliest of animals demonstrably have and that a Digitized Intelligence presumably would duplicate only with difficulty.
In fact, the debate should focus on a related term, Sapience, from the Latin Sapientia, meaning wisdom and prominently embedded in our species name, Homo Sapiens, Wise Man. Frankly, that should be an open question. Exactly how wise are we men and women? Proposed: Our species name would be more accurate if changed to Homo Sentiens. We are, after all, mostly emotional and reactionary with precious little wisdom to our credit.
Digitized Intelligence, on the other hand, is becoming more and more capable of Super Sapience, so much so that we will be experiencing an existential dilemma once Digitized Intelligence is doing all of our thinking for us, and that day is not far off!
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