Kino's Opportunity - Part 1
As if my legs had gained sentience, i began to stand from the corner. before i was aware of my own actions; i had unlocked the stall door and peered out.
Not So Simple ~Prologue
Nothing but a number, no personality, no sentience; just a number and a statistic. that's the way they liked it. we weren't like them, so it wasn't being inhumane to treat us like animals. though there was a certain irony to that.
The Pokémon Journey -- Team Xaos and Pewter City
"the pokemorphs have sentience, free will and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, its not your place to forcefully enslave them," said mike. "ace, felix, kelly, go!"
Found (Ch. 13)
"i've already called and informed child protective services, however, since it seems we're dealing with a potentially undiscovered species, a researcher to confirm sentience is being dispatched first." dorian snorted at that but nodded.
Freedom
I'm sure sentience can be a bit of a shock if you're not used to it... not that i would know, of course." "you... did this?"
SENTIENCE - Chapter Three - Long Fall
#4 of sentience - a first contact story a trillion-dollar robot suffers a fall, and she can't get back up. the circularization burn was successful. we were in a polar orbit, designed to help us image and scan all of the planet's surface as it rotated.
Inside the Chinese Room
Speech recognized: user #0003: "i know, it's just that the turing test is still considered the standard for determining sentience. how about you? [vicki indicated] do you feel up to this?" calculating responses: "of course."
Remembering Dasher Cheetah ... Some Thoughts We Shared about 7 Years Ago ...
Then of course, sentience doesn't necessarily imply friendly, and that's a whole other can of worms.
Lupis Culture: The Paragons
That lupa, lupis, and the other paragons were in fact machines given sentience.
Warrior's Spirit
The mind, the heart, the soul, the intangibles of sentience - these were at the very basis of our species existence for untold centuries. each of us was taught, from kithood, how to handle the essence of our selves.
The World of Actura (Worldbuilding)
The most simple one was the instinct that still pervaded most predatory species' minds, despite their transition into sentience: the hunting instinct, to stalk, to pounce, to _kill..._ this even applied to many normally herbivorous creatures, who had swiftly
DSOTM: Atomic Tiger #1
Maybe that's the price you pay for sentience, the same one all of us pay: the agony of never understanding why." chrome-tipped ears twitched. the eyes widened. "but i digress. forgive me for rambling.