There is something i've been thinking of lately: the development of artificial intelligence to a degree which would be capable of sentience. What would be the best way to approach our relationship to that sentience? As author, parent, creator, programmer, or some mixture of these? What would we be viewed as by these new creations? Inferior superior or equal? Would there be any reason to compare oranges and tennis balls? And what of our relation to our creator? If we're shaped by sentience what view does that sentience take of us? If we are not formed by some creator - are we surrounded by accidental sentience already? Purposeful sentience seems to be what would occur if artificial intelligence was something we humans wrote on a computer. What command would you give an artificial intelligence?