Sapience

**Sapience** is the state of mind that allows the bearers to experience a vast amount of states and conditions, as well as create, process and exchange information, knowledge, experience, being able to be rational and self-aware, able to process and understand cognitive experience.

## Overview

Sapience is the most important phenomenon known to the Homelanders , right along with friendship. In fact, only because of sapience it can even exist.

It had been achieved via the natural evolutionary way a very long ago, which made the Homelanders those who they were until they started to research and test the alleged perfection of their natural sapience.

They found out that, regardless of the fact that it is sapience, it could not be considered perfect or even tolerable, because the natural mind has quite a few flaws, irremovable due to its structure. To get rid of them, the Homelanders had to fundamentally alter their minds.

This idea transformed into a goal and later, into a project called 'True sapience.'

## True sapience

The definition of true sapience is a fairly simple one: the true sapience is a perfect version of the narutally evolved sapience.

To achieve this state of mind, the Homelanders had to create and introduce a lot of technologies, such as mind uploading (organic mind has got a lot of severe limitations compared to a synthetic hybrid), technologies that reduced the influence of the tyranny of biochemistry before mind uploading became reality, and of course, the fusion that eliminated all petty quirks of natural minds.

The Homelanders accept an idea that true sapience can be achieved without turning organic minds into AI hybrids, but so far, no evidence has been found to support this hypothesis.

## Undersapience

Undersapience is also simple to define -- it is the state of naturally evolved minds, the owners of which do not wish or hinder the process of becoming truly sapient.

A creature with natural sapience isn't nescessary an undersapient creature, if it has a desire to develop, learn, research, as well as a desire to get rid of certain things that hinder the development, such as all sorts of debates, arguments, antagonism, forced cooperation and many others.

An undersapient creature, on the other hand, is trying to accept and process such things, creating systems that allow them to exist and function, not just as ideas but as active processes. Some undersapient creatures can go as far as claiming that these things, such as debates, are good and are the necessary parts of every sapient creature.

The worst case scenario is accepting the tyranny of biochemistry and treating it as a norm, or even as one of the best, if not the best thing that could possible happen to a sapient creature. Such treatment is considered absolutely unacceptable by the Homelanders.

## Possible algorithms of actions

In case of encountering an undersapient specie during expanding and turning stars into generators, Homelanders have a well-establishing course of actions.

Due to them valuing sapient or undersapient life greatly, Homelanders would place the whole species in virtual reality underground, to prevent them from inevitable doom that encasing star in satellites causes.