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sentience

[sen-shuhns] / ˈsɛn ʃəns /




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“As we improve the software, you can feel the sentience growing in the car. It feels alive.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Plant sentience, however, is goal-directed and suggests clear cognition of the surrounding environment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Humans are constantly revising their assessments of other beings’ intelligence while arrogantly presuming our superior sentience, with the world’s billionaires placing themselves above everyone else.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2025

“Claims around consciousness and sentience are a tactic to sell you on AI,” Bender and Hanna write.

From Los Angeles Times • 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




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