Pseudosentience
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From pseudo- + sentience.
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