Noun
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the readiness to perceive sensations
elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
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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"
- sensory faculty -
state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"the crash intruded on his awareness"