Scaled Up
They wanted to know how this species, resurrected with early, imperfect genetic engineering, had developed intellect, sapience, and the beginnings of civilization. i was their best option. this opportunity was worth it.
Dragon Breeder: The Pact
It wasn't that we didn't love them, but draconic tradition dictated that each whelp name themselves when they first develop the spark of sapience.
So Many Unexpected Things
07-c or drake to those who knew him personally had been built specifically with infiltrating nostor industries in mind, the subtle advances to his programming and design introduced by his benefactors had seen to it that he was produced and brought to full sapience
Pokemon Team Valiant: Brother's Reunion
The only thing we know about him is that he's a former warrior monk from the north continent, but i don't even know where from or how he got corrupted - how he became a shadow pokémon, or more so, why it is he retained his sapience and can transfer that curse
Dragon Forever
Instead, it was more akin to a different life, of being something that wasn't exactly me, with nothing left of who i was in reality, yet it had the same _spark_, the same quality of sapience.
Walls: Exodus 22 - Twisted Depths
It could be that they are simply adapting their speech patterns, or it could be that they are indeed developing sapience, in which case they'd be citizens like everyone else in sophos."
Ultimate Furry Crossover: An Adult Choose Your Own Adventure - Entry 64 - Part 2 of 2
Then he forced himself to focus, using the same logical ability that allowed him to function with true sapience, when all other deathclaws were bloodthirsty, near-mindless monsters.
Walls Book 1 - Ch 15 : Secrets
"sapience is the ability to think abstractly about the world, to search for meaning instead of purpose." "i see, i want information on the origins of the si," i said. the screen filled with excerpts, documentation, and images of the si.
The Last Shell
sapience was something that came slowly to a hatchling, and as much as he learned to master his scuttling limbs and counterbalance with his tail, he learned to control and make use of his own mind.
Serving the Herd
But as the wars grew more intense, they... gave our herds more sapience, more identity. when finally the wars ended, they didn't realize what they had created.
My Boyfriend is a Werewolf: Chapter 18
The fact of the matter is that these gunshots are from highly trained hunters, and this werewolf not only can transform at will, but he has complete sapience to take the body armor off one of his kills and wear it upon himself.
Awakening - Part 6
There are a lot of races that, back in dim pre-history, some now-extinct people called the ancients cooked up with advanced geneering, taking various species of non-sapient animal, instilling them with various traits, uplifting them to sapience, and seeding