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sentience

capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively
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sentience

Summary

sentience is a concept[1]. sentience ranks in the top 5% of concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,850 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • sentience's instance of is recorded as concept[3].
  • sentience's instance of is recorded as philosophical concept[4].
  • sentience's facet of is recorded as neuropsychology[5].
  • sentience's described by source is recorded as FILIT[6].
  • sentience's different from is recorded as wisdom[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include concept[3] and philosophical concept[4].

Why It Matters

sentience ranks in the top 5% of concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,850 views/month).[2] sentience has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] sentience is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

neuropsychology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . dai.fmph.uniba.sk. Retrieved . dai.fmph.uniba.sk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sentience_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{sentience}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sentience}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → FILIT
    Instance of → concept, philosophical concept
    Facet of → neuropsychology
    Different from → wisdom
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007531760305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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