sentient

But If these two individuals are now one, does that mean their minds literally melded — or that perhaps they were never even sentient in the first place?

The text of the law recognizes that octopuses are “highly intelligent, curious, problem-solving animals” that are conscious, sentient and experience “pain, stress, and fear, as well as pleasure, equanimity, and social bonds.”

The idea that AI might become sentient does not fill Anadol with terror.

Cooley’s film remains very much a mainstream product entrenched in the build-it-as-we-go mythology of these sentient machines, but there’s an attention to the motivations and desires of its characters missing in many Hollywood cash grabs.

“Students connect with the animals as other sentient beings.”