Sentient vs Perception - What's the difference?
sentient | perception |
Conscious or self-aware.
Experiencing sensation, thinking, thought, or feeling.
Possessing human-like knowledge and intelligence.
Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
(chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.
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, year = 1965
, first = Philip José
, last = Farmer
, authorlink = Philip José Farmer
, title =
, passage = The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
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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.
