Crossword clues for sentience
sentience
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sentience \Sen"ti*ence\, Sentiency \Sen"ti*en*cy\, n. [See
Sentient, Sentence.]
The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or
state of having sensation.
--G. H. Lewes.
An example of harmonious action between the
intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
--Earle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, "faculty of sense; feeling, consciousness;" see sentient + -ence. Related: Sentiency (1796).
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
WordNet
n. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: awareness]
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" [syn: sense, sensation, sentiency, sensory faculty]
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart [ant: insentience]
Wikipedia
Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think ( reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as " qualia"). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights, because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, and thus is held to confer certain rights.
Usage examples of "sentience".
The manhead remains as a particle of sentience embedded somewhere in the fabric of your being.
Imagine: a stable necrosis, where the only sentience in the High Beyond is the Blight.
Psychosphere: the Psychosphere was the essence of all sentience, of mental intelligence.
The avian struggled mightily, waving its head back and forth and squawking in protest, but it did not take long for the sentience to overcome its small mind.
If he were asked, he wondered, would he be able to say, as he had with the sprookjes, that he deduced sentience in an extrapolative computer?
The sentience slid along the stems of rockweed, tasting brine and swaying with the undulation of the waves, but it could not travel beyond the shore, for a great submerged barrier sang it back.
Soon there was no trace of the boy in the hall and the Runestaff glowed a brighter black, seemed to have sentience.
When one conjoins with another in the form of being as pure sentience, one is still self, but conjoined intricately.
What Penrose hypothesizes is that the standard model of our brains of dendrites and synapse links cannot possibly explain sentience simply because there are not even vaguely enough of these to perform the complexities of what true sentience would require.
Shining One with the seven orbs of light which are the channels between it and the sentience we sought to make articulate, the portals through which flow its currents and so flowing, become choate, vocal, self-realizant within our child.
A few seconds too late, it struck the captain of the AAnn ship with appalling realization that dispatching explosive devices in the general direction of the newly revealed colossus might be interpreted by an unknown sentience as something other than a benevolent gesture.
Don’t forget, we’re talking about an anentropic pattern of inferred sentience that arrived here from an entirely alien, non-Euclidean universe whose physical laws in no way resemble our own.
And, as she reminded herself, the bridgehead might not have very long to enjoy its sentience in the first place.
Most other civilisations thought this perplexing, or claimed to find it only natural, or dismissed it as mildly interesting and sufficient to prove that there was little point in wasting time and resources creating such flawless but useless sentience.
There isn’t a discernible intelligence,” Pol replied, clenching and releasing his fist, surprised at his own vehemence, “much less a trace of sentience.