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, Gavin G. Smith, Veteran‎^[1], 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, Steven Sevush, 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, Justin Travis Call, Master Artificer (The Silent Gods Series)‎^[2], 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.

Coordinate terms

• pseudoconsciousness

Related terms

• nonsentience, nonsentient, pseudoconscious, pseudosentient