sen·tient
adjectiveâ/ËsenCH(ç)Ént/â
1. Able to perceive or feel things
* - she had been instructed from birth in the equality of all
sentient life forms
Web definitions
* endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living
knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
* consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy
so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
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* Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectively. The term
is used in philosophy (particularly in the philosophy of animal ethics
and in eastern philosophy) as well as in science fiction and in the
study of artificial intelligence. ...
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* Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain;
Conscious or aware; Experiencing sensation or feeling
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* sentience - awareness: state of elementary or undifferentiated
consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness"
* sentience - sense: 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"
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* sentience - The state or quality of being sentient; possession of
consciousness or sensory awareness
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* sentiency - The property of having sensation; sentience
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* Something that can feel, or experience some form of emotion.
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* 1: responsive to or conscious of sense impressions 2: aware
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* Self-aware, choice-making consciousness. Humans and cetaceans
(dolphins and whales) are the two sentient species on earth.
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* Capable of feeling or perception. Refers to a state of
self-awareness among organisms, usually applied only to vertebrates.
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* sentience - It may be conscious in the generic sense of simply
being a sentient creature, one capable of sensing and responding to its
world (Armstrong 1981). Being conscious in this sense may admit of
degrees, and just what sort of sensory capacities are sufficient may not
be sharply defined. ...
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--- In [email protected], Beverley Huish <beverley.huish@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I keep coming across references to 'sentient beings'. How does
Buddhism define
> a sentient being?
>
> :-)
>
> Beverley.
