nonsentient

This grotesque technology was memorably anticipated in Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's 1952 novel "The Space Merchants," a corporate dystopia of the 21st century in which peon workers hack slices off a gigantic blob of animate but nonsentient poultry breast called Chicken Little.

Boing Boing 2007

Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters.

Les Miserables 2008

I'm weirdly enamored of the idea that some of the human population is nonsentient but capable of pulling off a most convincing show.

Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

“Could this be a nest created by nonsentient life native to deep space?”

Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

“Could this be a nest created by nonsentient life native to deep space?”

Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

Permanence is Karl's second novel, and it's brilliant -- at its core is a massive, hard-sf conceit: that because tool-use expends more energy than adaptation (i.e., when confronted with a marsh, it's easier to be a marsh-bird than to figure out how to drain it), that over time, all the races of the universe will use genetic engineering to adapt themselves to their habitats and so become nonsentient.

Boing Boing: August 24, 2003 - August 30, 2003 Archives 2003

The reason is...remind me, why did I want to go on living in a ghoulish, nonsentient suspended animation, exactly?

Archive 2005-03-01 2005

“Could this be a nest created by nonsentient life native to deep space?”

Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005

The reason is...remind me, why did I want to go on living in a ghoulish, nonsentient suspended animation, exactly?

Now I'm Confused 2005

“Could this be a nest created by nonsentient life native to deep space?”

Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005