sentience

• No further mention is made of Solaris's possible sentience -- the idea that occupies the heart of Lem's novel -- and thus the planet's potentials come to seem those of an enormous magic bean that grants wishes whether you want it to or not. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 04 - April 2003
• If the unit should gain sentience, there was only one desperate alternative to its freedom. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
• Intelligence without sentience was the norm in the Orion Arm, but occasionally an inexperienced lingster took a display of the first as proof of the second. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 04 - April 1999
• Sometimes this indicates a disaster wrought by overreaching sentience, a war that ended the futures of the higher species. —  F ;SF - vol 103 issue 06 - December 2002
• “Are you saying that the networked Victors and cell phones have created a true sentient creature True synthesized sentience,” said Jonathan, in a voice lacking conviction. —  AnalogSFF,May2008

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