Meanings
- uncountableA state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
[…] pseudosentience in human brains. First, there is the pseudosentience present in the right hemisphere.
2016, Steven Sevush, The Single-Neuron Theory: Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, →DOI, →ISBN2 more examples
It doesn't matter if they are information forms that have developed pseudosentience and taken on the identity of our cultural icons, or if they are aliens, or as you say just a hallucination tickling the old religious gene. All that matters is how we respond to them, what we choose to do with them.
2010, Gavin G. Smith, Veteran, Orion, →ISBNHe had even tried to convince himself that the whispers weren't real, that he was imagining a pseudosentience in the artifacts he held.
2021, Justin Travis Call, Master Artificer (The Silent Gods Series), Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN
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