sentience

noun

1
the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
2
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
3
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
the crash intruded on his awareness

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