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Sentience is not so much a property of living beings, so much as it's the art of being alive.
Archive 2007-02-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Sentience is not so much a property of living beings, so much as it's the art of being alive.
The Art of Life Hal Duncan 2007
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Whatcar. com visited the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in Wokingham to try out the new package of technologies, called Sentience, that is claimed to do these things.
What Car? News 2009
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"Sentience" can refer to either conscious thought or subconscious feeling; Repella's art is wonderfully affecting on both levels.
Probing the Psyche of the Information Age: Repella.net (A Digital Art Website Review) 2005
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"Sentience" is defined as having the capacity to experience harm or benefit.
Lowering the Bar 2008
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Sentience, and furthermore, consciousness, is the ability for thought beyond what one is directed to think.
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Never showed either, but a better bet than a merry old Johnny Appleseed of Sentience who disappeared without a trace.
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Sentience, and furthermore, consciousness, is the ability for thought beyond what one is directed to think.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Sentience, the capacity to feel pain and suffer, frequently is the main reason people "go vegetarian or vegan."
Marc Bekoff: Vegans Shouldn't Eat Oysters, and If You Do You're Not Vegan, So... 2010
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Sentience, the capacity to feel pain and suffer, frequently is the main reason people "go vegetarian or vegan."
Marc Bekoff: Vegans Shouldn't Eat Oysters, and If You Do You're Not Vegan, So... 2010
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