Perception vs Sentience - What's the difference?
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Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
Vision (ability )
Acuity
(cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
The state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.
* 1903 , , The Jewel of Seven Stars , ch. 5:
* 2007 Dec. 28, Alexandra Silver, "
As nouns the difference between perception and sentience
is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while sentience is the state or quality of being sentient; possession of consciousness or sensory awareness.perception
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(-)- [T]he shadows . . . presently began to seem, as on last night, to have a sentience of their own.
Did This Tiger Hold a Grudge?," Time :
- The science of animal sentience is far from a firm one; there's no way of knowing exactly what any animal is feeling.