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Sentience

noun
1.
State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness.  Synonym: awareness.
2.
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended.  Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency.
3.
The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness.





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"Sentience" Quotes from Famous Books



... transmutation-processes—in the sensations, feelings, perceptions, images, ideas—in short, in all that is going on at the point where (I necessarily express myself in terms of spatial relations, though in this connection these are figurative) my sentience ...
— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip


Words linked to "Sentience" :   insentient, sentiency, sensory system, module, mental faculty, modality, sensitiveness, sense, sentient, animate, sensibility, sensitivity, liveness, animateness, faculty, sensation, consciousness, aliveness, awareness, insentience, sense modality, insensate


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