Utopia or dystopia, does it matter?

The material sentients, whether bio or non, are pets to something(s) deeper and unseen.

Subliming is a graduation ceremony. To the next level of petness, probably.

> The material sentients, whether bio or non, are pets to something(s) deeper and unseen.

That seems like a matter of opinion; the Culture minds, certainly, seem to think of the Sublimed as being basically irrelevant.