Sentient
adjective
Has feelings, can experience sensations, or think consciously.
The philosophy class speculated on whether or not robots could ever become sentient.
Often appears as...
- sentient beings
- sentient life
adjective
In a fictional context, able to have personal experiences and feelings.
In the movie, the alien was a sentient being capable of understanding complex emotions.
Often appears as...
- sentient entity
- sentient ai
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Literary
adjective
Has feelings, can experience sensations, or think consciously.
The philosophy class speculated on whether or not robots could ever become sentient.
Often appears as...
- sentient beings
- sentient life
adjective
In a fictional context, able to have personal experiences and feelings.
In the movie, the alien was a sentient being capable of understanding complex emotions.
Often appears as...
- sentient entity
- sentient ai
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Subjectivity Nuance
Sentient emphasizes having subjective experiences, not just any reaction to stimuli.
The dog seems sentient as it appears to experience joy and sadness.
Pro Tip 2/3Philosophical Use
Used in philosophy to debate the ability of non-humans to think or feel.
Is the sentient mind unique to humans, or do animals possess it too?
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Depth
Highlights the capacity for deep feelings, going beyond basic senses.
Some argue that sentient creatures can feel not only pain but also love.
Pro Tip 1/3Subjectivity Nuance
Sentient emphasizes having subjective experiences, not just any reaction to stimuli.
The dog seems sentient as it appears to experience joy and sadness.
Pro Tip 2/3Philosophical Use
Used in philosophy to debate the ability of non-humans to think or feel.
Is the sentient mind unique to humans, or do animals possess it too?
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Depth
Highlights the capacity for deep feelings, going beyond basic senses.
Some argue that sentient creatures can feel not only pain but also love.
Pro Tip 1/3Subjectivity Nuance
Sentient emphasizes having subjective experiences, not just any reaction to stimuli.
The dog seems sentient as it appears to experience joy and sadness.
Pro Tip 2/3Philosophical Use
Used in philosophy to debate the ability of non-humans to think or feel.
Is the sentient mind unique to humans, or do animals possess it too?
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Depth
Highlights the capacity for deep feelings, going beyond basic senses.
Some argue that sentient creatures can feel not only pain but also love.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
but perhaps the sentient teachers lived in these places perhaps there were places for people to meditate in this area the artwork that existed inside was it there for the people to focus their concentration and to move beyond obviously the cares concerns of this earthly life well it's difficult for us
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The habits of happiness...
It deals with the state of compassion, unconditional compassion. We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being. Of course, during the training, we do that with objects.
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Yuval Noah Harari...
the relationship between technology and us that it should regard sentient things as gods that have superpowers it knows nothing of no is that is that ridiculous i think that the question of sentience and consciousness is the most important question in in this regard and it's the
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Is the world getting...
As we learn more, we can show which parts of the story continue to be true and which ones false, as any of them might be and any could become. And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason
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Your brain hallucinates...
by the biological mechanisms that keep us alive. Just making computers smarter is not going to make them sentient. Finally, our own individual inner universe, our way of being conscious, is just one possible way of being conscious.
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Hunting for dinosaurs...
Who could have imagined that a single species of shrew-like mammal living in the cracks of the dinosaur world would evolve into sentient beings capable of characterizing and understanding the very dinosaurs they must have dreaded?
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The evolution of the...
granite does not care either the implements of writing have never cared about meaning pens and typewriters are not sentient think Thomas Jefferson's geese had no idea what their plumage was was writing technology influences form
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Nationalism vs....
How can you be sure there's no purpose when we don't even understand what this sentience thing is? I mean, in your own thinking, isn't there a chance that what humans are for is to be the universe's sentient things,
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How to outsmart the...
the other will retaliate by choosing “sacrifice” for the rest of eternity. So is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate? To figure that out, we have to factor in another
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Why does the universe...
It's not an elegant universe. And then there's the best of all possible worlds in an ethical sense. You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly,
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
but perhaps the sentient teachers lived in these places perhaps there were places for people to meditate in this area the artwork that existed inside was it there for the people to focus their concentration and to move beyond obviously the cares concerns of this earthly life well it's difficult for us
Video examples
The habits of happiness...
It deals with the state of compassion, unconditional compassion. We asked meditators, who have been doing that for years and years, to put their mind in a state where there's nothing but loving kindness, total availability to sentient being. Of course, during the training, we do that with objects.
Video examples
Yuval Noah Harari...
the relationship between technology and us that it should regard sentient things as gods that have superpowers it knows nothing of no is that is that ridiculous i think that the question of sentience and consciousness is the most important question in in this regard and it's the
Video examples
Is the world getting...
As we learn more, we can show which parts of the story continue to be true and which ones false, as any of them might be and any could become. And this story belongs not to any tribe but to all of humanity, to any sentient creature with the power of reason
Video examples
Your brain hallucinates...
by the biological mechanisms that keep us alive. Just making computers smarter is not going to make them sentient. Finally, our own individual inner universe, our way of being conscious, is just one possible way of being conscious.
Video examples
Hunting for dinosaurs...
Who could have imagined that a single species of shrew-like mammal living in the cracks of the dinosaur world would evolve into sentient beings capable of characterizing and understanding the very dinosaurs they must have dreaded?
Video examples
The evolution of the...
granite does not care either the implements of writing have never cared about meaning pens and typewriters are not sentient think Thomas Jefferson's geese had no idea what their plumage was was writing technology influences form
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
How can you be sure there's no purpose when we don't even understand what this sentience thing is? I mean, in your own thinking, isn't there a chance that what humans are for is to be the universe's sentient things,
Video examples
How to outsmart the...
the other will retaliate by choosing “sacrifice” for the rest of eternity. So is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate? To figure that out, we have to factor in another
Video examples
Why does the universe...
It's not an elegant universe. And then there's the best of all possible worlds in an ethical sense. You should get solemn now, because a world in which sentient beings don't suffer needlessly,
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Kat Von D
American Artist
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.
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Dimitar Sasselov
Bulgarian Scientist
It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
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Frank Rich
American Journalist
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
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Gary L. Francione
American Educator
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
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Mary Oliver
American Poet
To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
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Daniel Dennett
American Philosopher
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Frances Wright
Scottish Writer
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Nicolas Cage
Actor
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
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Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
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Kat Von D
American Artist
Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.
Quote examples
Dimitar Sasselov
Bulgarian Scientist
It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.
Quote examples
Paul Davies
British Writer
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
Quote examples
Frank Rich
American Journalist
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
Quote examples
Gary L. Francione
American Educator
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
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Mary Oliver
American Poet
To tell you the truth, I believe everything - tigers, trees, stones - are sentient in one way or another. You'd never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example.
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Daniel Dennett
American Philosopher
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Quote examples
Frances Wright
Scottish Writer
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Quote examples
Nicolas Cage
Actor
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
Quote examples
Max Heindel
Danish Celebrity
Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
Example 1 of 10
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