sentience
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈsɛnʃəns/
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sentiencia
- Humans brought intelligence, sentience, and self-awareness to the world; it cannot be denied.
- sentience and self
Is that where where human sentience is?
- Is that where where human sentience is?
- They will indeed build sentience into a machine.
- And that to me was evidence of Ava's true sentience, whatever that sentience was.
- What about, you know, is there like a scale of sentience for animal life that would perceive the moon?
- Clairaudience is clear hearing Clair sentience is clear feeling.
- Yeah, I'm excited to explore the variance or degrees of sentience.
- And then he says these three components together are not enough to create sentience, the capacity to sense things, right?
- Are you ever worried or suspicious of the fact that that we like to talk about chickens having less sentience or something like this?
- But you don't just tackle the multiple realizability of sentience, but the multiple realizability of cognition.
- Like how how I guess how you would perceive consciousness in a rock versus like scaling that sentience through plant and animal life, like how we relate to it.
- And then, you know, as you go down the scale, sentience sort of.
- In spiritual philosophy it is known as the point of sentience.
Examples
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But until Roombas achieve sentience, we have to deal with human failings in any system.
Blog text (21) -
I think it's gaining sentience.
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The object then would record simply that I, in my sentience, was here.
Fiction book (1993) -
And then he says these three components together are not enough to create sentience, the capacity to sense things, right?
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I mean, you mentioned sentience and consciousness.
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But neither is our sentience just an illusion.
Academic text (2016) -
Do you have a true understanding of the sentience of whales and dolphins?
Blog text (3) -
And that to me was evidence of Ava's true sentience, whatever that sentience was.
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Could we become unwitting hosts to an alien sentience spreading at the speed of light?
Academic text (1996) -
Many researchers study animal sentience to better understand their emotional experiences.
Synonyms
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3.2
Knowing about something or noticing it
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5.6
Being awake and able to notice your body and surroundings
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6.6
Ability to feel physical things like touch or pain
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7.6
The state of being aware and able to think
Ability to feel or notice things around you
Ability to feel or notice things through the senses
Antonyms
How Sentient
Surface Forms
Morphology
sentience = sentient (transparent) = sent + ence
Formed by standard noun derivation from the adjective 'sentient' indicating the state or quality of being able to feel.
Etymology
Sentience comes from the Latin word sentire, which means 'to feel' or 'to notice', and it shares the same root as the English word sense. So, sentience is the ability to feel or perceive things, which is why we talk about the sentience of animals or people.