sentient

IPA: sˈɛnʃʌnt

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.
Able to consciously perceive through the use of sense faculties.
(loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

Examples of "sentient" in Sentences

But I am curious to know, Ron, how long human heads remain sentient after they have been severed.
Being aware that Bush and his bunch are barely sentient is not being against America, it is being for what is used to stand for.
I call sentient beings out of the blessed gulf of nothingness, that they may pay a duty to my weakness by and by, and curse me in their hearts?
On Kierkegaard's religious views, Sartre offers the usual argument against existence of God: If existence precedes essence, it follows from the meaning of the term sentient that a sentient being cannot be complete or perfect.
Of course it is circular in the sense that, based on my proffered definition, since intelligence ultimately permeates all aspects of being, what we call sentient beings (life forms) are simply different manifestations of intelligence playing with itself, or as one old text puts it in the title: 'You are the Eyes of the Universe.'