sentience
- n state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
- n the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- n the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
- Yet once we realize that our own consciousness is a product of our brains and that other people have brains like ours, a denial of other people's sentience becomes ludicrous.
- Some concede that sentience is still a mystery, but expect that an unborn genius will someday explain it to us as all.
- The key is that the 'heroes' actually retain their sentience, so they appreciate the horrific nature of their actions, they just can't calm their insatiable hunger for human flesh.