sentient
adjEtymology
From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.
- borrowed from sentiēns
Definitions
Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
- Consider fish, who are apparently sentient yet cognitively extremely primitive in comparison with humans.
- Obviously, other morally relevant considerations would apply to the case of a sentient fetus, as by acquiring sentience it acquires interests and moral status.
Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.
- While I had heard such talk before, I had always felt that sentient robots were in the realm of science fiction. But now, from someone I respected [Ray Kurzweil], I was hearing a strong argument that they were a near-term possibility.
- Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.
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Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
An intelligent, self-aware being.
- The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
The neighborhood
- synonymintelligence
- synonymsentient
- synonymsapient
- synonymsophont
- antonymautomaton
- antonyminsensate
- neighborconscient
- neighborself-aware
- neighborartificial intelligence
- neighborHomo sapiens
- neighborhuman
- neighborperson
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sentient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sentient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at sentient
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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