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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



... interesting to note that in his latest work Haeckel regards sensation (or unconscious sentience) as an ultimate and irreducible attribute of substance, like matter (or extension) and ...
— Life and Matter - A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' • Oliver Lodge
... attitude of mind has not as yet been achieved. A certain self-absorption, not personal, but human, has marked almost all attempts to conceive the universe as a whole. Mind, or some aspect of it—thought or will or sentience—has been regarded as the pattern after which the universe is to be conceived, for no better reason, at bottom, than that such a universe would not seem strange, and would give us the cosy feeling that every place is like home. To conceive the universe ...
— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell
... the next few minutes can by no means be exaggerated. With such crises the human mind is not fitted adequately to cope; it retains no record of the supreme moment beyond a vague and incoherent impression of poignant, soul-racking suffering. Kirkwood underwent a prolonged interval of semi-sentience, his mind dominated and oppressed by a deathly fear of drowning and a deadening sense of suffocation, with attendant tortures as of being broken on the wheel—limb rending from limb; of compression of his ribs that threatened ...
— The Black Bag • Louis Joseph Vance


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


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