How To Use Sentience In A Sentence
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gave sentience to slugs and newts
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It was just a vague sentience that it held significance for her in some, unreachable, context.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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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.
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Teleportation is nearly instantaneous once activated, and can generally be accomplished in the same OP during which Clairsentience was used to locate the target.
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A robot may not harm sentience or, through inaction allow sentience to come to harm.
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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
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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
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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
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This evening focuses on the four clairs–clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance–and how you can become “clear on your clairs.”
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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
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A temporary oblivion in which you live but have no sentience.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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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
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These new ones were a distilled set of basic self-propagating equations that, when housed in a quiet, stimulus-free shell on a board with a few TBytes of space for growth, had a high probability of achieving sentience.
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But even with all of these arguments, it all comes down to one thing - at what stage the blob of cells which will become a small human being develops sentience.
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Sentience sings, metaphorically speaking, because that musicality is the basis of the art-form, which is life.
The Art of Life
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Surely humans have the ability to intervene in any number of moral and ethical issues purely by virtue of their sentience?
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A temporary oblivion in which you live but have no sentience.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Conceal: While worn, a third eye conceal hides the wearer from all powers that attempt to view, locate, or otherwise detect the wearer, except for the Clairsentience power metafaculty.
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A robot may not harm sentience or, through inaction allow sentience to come to harm.
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Other species have the same levels of cognition, sentience and ability to feel pain as small children, but because of this arbitrary line most people would eat one and not the other.
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Of course, this suggestion will seem absurd if we are still tempted to assimilate sapience to sentience, thus to think of sensations as the objects of ‘immediate’ knowledge.
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It was just a vague sentience that it held significance for her in some, unreachable, context.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The Predator UAV is scary technology with a tweenager at the controls … I think Asimov did more for human contemplation of robotic sentience (and its pitfalls) than any scientist.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Really interesting viewing here…
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As far as sentience goes the counter argument to yours is simply that it is as true that carried to term the fertilized cell will turn into a sentient being as that the earth circles the sun, but cows, chickens and shrimp not only are not, but never will be sentient.
Men shouldn't have opinions about women's issues?
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Everything, for the thinking alector must understand that sentience of a lasting nature is rare, and that no price is too high to pay for the perpetuation of a society that enshrines sentience.
Soarer's Choice
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So we were talking about regular everyday stuff like quantum physics and artificial intelligence in robots, and the parameters by which we set the standards of sentience in robots.
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The combination of these three physical faculties – the physical faculty for sentience, the physical faculty for self-awareness, and the physical faculty for a mind – is called the “internal agent” (nang-du byed-pa, Skt. anta: karana).
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Philosophy
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The physical faculty for sentience (blo, Skt. buddhi) or the mighty one (chen-po, Skt. mahat), the boss, is the physical medium through which a person, as passive consciousness, manifests.
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Philosophy
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But as far as gaining consciousness and sentience, it is futile.