Dual-core wands? - Intuitive Sentience

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 181557

---  "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
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> ...
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> Carol responds:
> ... I agree that wands are sentient, and it may have been
> trying him out as its master. 

bboyminn:

I just want to address this one small issue. I don't think
wands are truly sentient. They are not sitting around 
composing poems and contemplating deep philosophical mysteries.

I think they are sentient only in the intuitive or instinctive
sense. They are like many lower animals. They don't have 
conscious thought, they just follow primitive instincts.

Wands sense what is happening in the world and respond to it,
but they do so without conscious thought or contemplation. 
Which means, they make no moral judgments, just as lower
animals make no moral judgments.

Neither do I think wands have any sense of self-awareness or
a sense of their own mortality, which, to some extent, are
criteria for sentience.

People are trying to paint the sentience of wands as 
contemplative and truly thoughtful, but again, I dispute
that. They respond on a low level of instinct.

Or at least, that is how I see it.

Steve/bboyminn