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Research also finds that feline characteristics may have rubbed off on their homo sapient counterparts.

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He wants to preserve a record of humanity that could survive for eons, to be read by successors to Homo sapiens on Earth or by sapient extraterrestrials.

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The movie is basically Spike Jonze’s movie Her, about a sapient AI companion and the man who falls in love with her, retooled as a comedy of mild life lessons.

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In the game, she says, all of the human characters have different ideas about how sapient AIs are, and how they should be treated.

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The only narration we hear is the voices of the men who fought the war, so the film is blessedly free of the sapient sounds of experts and academic historians.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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