sentience
Example Sentences
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Plant sentience, however, is goal-directed and suggests clear cognition of the surrounding environment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
Soon, they had philosophical discussions about AI’s potential for sentience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
All this sequel had to be was a Nine Inch Nails-scored mood, but pre-chewed ideas about sentience and AI, coupled with a nonsensical plot, turn it into a chore.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
While raising the possibility of A.I. sentience will get you roundly mocked by self-described A.I. experts on Reddit, smarter people than them think there might be something to the idea.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025
He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
