The Machine - Prologue Part Three
sentience? what is sentience? the ability to think, make decisions, free will? what then differentiates humans from cockroaches?
Be Kind To Those Less Fortunate 7
It had no personality, no sentience to speak of. those that thought so were merely projecting from their own hopes and fears. the light did not prod people to do good. people did good because they wanted to, just as people did evil.
Shasha's Slumber [Commission]
The black coils continued to cover every inch of her; cinching her thighs together, tucking her paws in against her torso, shasha mewled, not a hint of sentience behind those swirling eyes as they drifted closer to total closure.
Egg Collections
Androids were more palatable considering true sentience had a benchmark as far as computer code and hardware. eurynome countered this new business market by hiring people through her clinics and even better hospital train system to collect eggs.
The Institute: Collaboration
Zant was at his base a mesh of programs that had found sentience, and to assume that a being ascended from mere code would be vain and fickle was laughable.
Favors of the First Ones - Chapter 6
Those of us who've arrived at sentience are all meat eaters." "good. i love meat and according to xelzix i get to eat like a pig from now on. i love these nanos they gave me.
Wishful Thinking & Unfortunate Circumstance
Being an inanimate object was strange; but being an inanimate object with sentience was a level of crazy that brink couldn't have imagined possible. not that either was regularly possible.
Journey
It seems somewhat a shame to be handfed life, especially sentience with grand potential lurking undercover, patiently awaiting its natural spiritual unveiling at an undefined stage cementing the higher timeline.
The Habitat
It wasn't unheard of for a feral to possess advanced sentience, but outside of dragons it was scarce at best. even more rare was finding one in captivity, as most would find a way to let their captor know of their intellect in short order.
W.O.L.F. 6 - Playful Void
And with knowledge, instead of faith into the sentience of the underlying fabrics of the world."
And Beyond
When his fore legs curled down around mitzi's haunches, the "ascended" sentience sloughed away and left two horny beasts grinding against each other.
One for the Many
_(inspired by another story, 'sliding time', by __rauhnee ranshanka and karl wolfemann, wherein a race tasked with guiding and protecting the life of their planet was forced to kill one of the races they had guided to sentience, in order to