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Sentience

noun

State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness. Synonym: awareness.

The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency.

The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness.

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... propositions goes just as well to prove the other also. But I have perhaps already said as much as is necessary on this head; the main point with which I am concerned is the fact that Professor Huxley was trying to expel consciousness and sentience from any causative action in the working of the universe. In the following month appeared the late Professor Clifford's hardly less outspoken article, "Body and Mind," to the same effect, also in the Fortnightly Review, then edited by Mr. ...

— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

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