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sentience

[sen-shuhns] / ˈsɛn ʃəns /




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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

Of course, if Anthropic is wrong, or exaggerating Claude’s possible sentience to sound cool, this is theater of the absurd—a bot LARPing as a person.

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




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