sentience

/'senʃəns/ Cách viết khác : (sentiency) /'senʃənsi/
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sentience

A scientist studies the sentience of an octopus in a laboratory.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • The capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively: The state of having senses and the ability to receive and process sensations.
    • The faculty of conscious awareness: The quality of being sentient; possessing consciousness, even in a basic or elementary form.
Usage and Examples
  • Noun:
    • The debate in philosophy often centers on the sentience of advanced artificial intelligence.
    • Many argue that the sentience of animals warrants greater ethical consideration.
    • The poem explored the idea of giving sentience to simple creatures.
Advanced Usage
  • "To attribute sentience to": To ascribe the quality of consciousness or feeling to something.
    • Some ancient myths attribute sentience to natural objects like rivers and mountains.
  • In philosophical and ethical contexts: Often used to discuss the boundary between living beings that can feel/suffer and those that cannot.
    • The core question of animal rights is one of sentience and the capacity to experience pain.
Variants and Related Words
  • Sentient (adj): Able to perceive or feel things.
    • Dolphins are highly sentient beings.
  • Sentiency (n): A less common variant synonymous with 'sentience'.
  • Insentience (n): The state of lacking consciousness or the ability to feel.
Synonyms
  • Consciousness: The state of being aware and able to think.
  • Awareness: Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.
  • Sensation: The operation or function of the senses; a physical feeling.
  • Perception: The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses.
Antonyms
  • Insentience: Lack of sensation or consciousness.
  • Unconsciousness: The state of being unaware and unable to perceive.
sentience

A scientist studies the sentience of an octopus in a laboratory.

Noun
  1. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • gave sentience to slugs and newts- Richard Eberhart
  2. 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
  3. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
    • the crash intruded on his awareness

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