Citations:sentiotic

English citations of sentiotic

Coined by Richard L. Fern in 2002 to mean purposeful and productive. Are there any cites other than Fern quotes?

• 2002, Richard L. Fern, Nature, God and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature, →ISBN, page 61:

  In any case we need to distinguish the question as to whether wild nature is sentiotic from the more abstract question regarding the moral relevance of sentiosis. It is possible that our nature, our biosphere, is not sentiotic, either because it is somehow evil in its orientation or, more likely, that it lacks an orientation altogether.

• [2003, The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age, page 109:

  A similar position has recently been defended by Richard Fern, who calls our attention to the difference between sentient and "sentiotic" life. […] But if sentiosis, the presence of a deep telos or procilivity toward creative life, is the deciding factor, then habitats and the organisms they support become candidates for moral considerability.]