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UK
/sˈɛnʃəns/
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NOUN
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the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
gave sentience to slugs and newts -
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing -
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
the crash intruded on his awareness
How To Use sentience In A Sentence
- gave sentience to slugs and newts
- It was just a vague sentience that it held significance for her in some, unreachable, context. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- The spider possesses a finely tuned sentience, harmonized to the vibrations of the web of its own making, the web of its own life by which it survives or starves.
- Teleportation is nearly instantaneous once activated, and can generally be accomplished in the same OP during which Clairsentience was used to locate the target.
- A robot may not harm sentience or, through inaction allow sentience to come to harm.
- To say that "we" can -- never mind must -- control "our passions" is to say that there is a sentient self distinct from the very basis of sentience, to believe in some aetheric ghost-in-the-machine, some supernatural spirit of a mech-warrior pulling levers, pressing buttons, flicking switches, turning dials to make the meat-robot lumber from here to there. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
- Johnny Got His Gun, wherein a maimed soldier, rigidly comatose, is agonizingly aware of his surroundings while utterly unable to communicate even a hint of his own sentience to those around his bed. Nasty, Brutish, and Short
- The informal and individual nature of such taxonomies becomes obvious if we take a word like "person" and look at the philosophical problems that arise when it comes to nascence and sentience: many would not consider a human embryo a "person" until a certain stage of development; many would consider any sentient individual a person, regardless of humanity. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE
- This evening focuses on the four clairs–clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance–and how you can become “clear on your clairs.” Portland Book Events: January 11-January 17 - Reading Local: Portland
- While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion. Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation