pseudosentience
pseudosentience noun: a state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
Noun
pseudosentience (uncountable)
- A state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
- 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.2010, Gavin G. Smith, Veteran, Orion, →ISBN
- […] pseudosentience in human brains. First, there is the pseudosentience present in the right hemisphere.2016, Steven Sevush, The Single-Neuron Theory: Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, →DOI, →ISBN
Origin of pseudosentience
From pseudo- + sentience.
Questions about pseudosentience
- What does pseudosentience mean?
- Pseudosentience means a state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
- What part of speech is pseudosentience?
- Pseudosentience is a noun.
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