pseudosentience

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ sentience

Noun

pseudosentience (uncountable)

  1. A state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
    • 2010, Smith, Gavin G., Veteran‎, Orion, →ISBN:
      It doesn't matter if they are information forms that have developed pseudosentience and taken on the identity of our cultural icons, or if they are aliens, or as you say just a hallucination tickling the old religious gene. All that matters is how we respond to them, what we choose to do with them.
    • 2016, Sevush, Steven, The Single-Neuron Theory: Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, →DOI, →ISBN:
      […] pseudosentience in human brains. First, there is the pseudosentience present in the right hemisphere.
    • 2021, Call, Justin Travis, Master Artificer (The Silent Gods Series)‎, Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN:
      He had even tried to convince himself that the whispers weren't real, that he was imagining a pseudosentience in the artifacts he held.

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