<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80a78ff4-9c11-4ed0-a6a4-f34593fdcf19/F68AC869-EC34-4C6B-9188-FFF98B23D824/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sentience&oldid=92002595" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sentience&oldid=92002595" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sentience&oldid=92002595"><P><B>Sentience</B> refers to possession of sensory organs, the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of <A title="Self-awareness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness">self-awareness</A>. The possession of <A title="Sapience" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapience">sapience</A> is not a necessity. The word <I>sentient</I> is often confused with the word <I><A title="Sapience" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapience">sapient</A></I>, which can connote <A title="Knowledge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">knowledge</A>, consciousness, or <A title="Apperception" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apperception">apperception</A>. The root of the confusion is that the word <I>conscious</I> has a number of different usages in <A title="English%20%28language%29" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_%28language%29">English</A>. The two words can be distinguished by looking at their <A title="Latin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin">Latin</A> <A title="Root%20%28linguistics%29" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_%28linguistics%29">roots</A>: <I>sentire</I>, "to feel"; and <I>sapere</I>, "to know".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sentience&oldid=92002595"><P>Sentience is the ability to sense. It is separate from, and not dependent on, aspects of consciousness.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F68AC869-EC34-4C6B-9188-FFF98B23D824/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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