No, there have been no recorded instances of the internet developing sentience due to it's complexity. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Gave sentience to slugs and newts- Richard Eberhart. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We make sense of the world with sentience -- or rather, we should say, sentience is the act of making sense of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
One that could attain sentience?. From Wordnik.com. [NaNoWriMo: The General « The Graveyard] Reference
Artificial sentience is like cloning. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Really interesting viewing here…] Reference
By now, it's pretty much confirmed that the Island has some kind of sentience/intelligence and maybe even a will. From Wordnik.com. [LOSTCasts 89: The Candidate] Reference
Even the common notion of 'sentience' may be an inappropriate metaphor for a highly developed machine intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [A True or False Prophet?] Reference
However, this kind of sentience takes a long, long time to grow - that's why the NetMind is the strongest and most visible. From Wordnik.com. [Q & A] Reference
Hence, I don't think the word "sentience" is a high-minded substitute for "ability to suffer.". From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis] Reference
But the kind of sentience we activists are talking about–the reason most of us are vegan in the first place–doesn’t exist in plants. From Wordnik.com. [Eating Meat Is Only Human - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Koko preferred pastimes that challenged his sentience. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
What is the definition of vital intelligence — sentience?. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
"So now your quanta of good have become quanta of sentience?". From Wordnik.com. [Angelmass]
But as far as gaining consciousness and sentience, it is futile. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2005] Reference
For all we know, the child in the womb may have its own dim sentience. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Their expertise seems to be derived by virtue of sheer sentience alone. From Wordnik.com. [John Thatamanil: Beyond the Theism/Atheism Divide: A Plea for Humility] Reference
We have known the Void from a time before your species achieved sentience. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
One day all the fragments, the limited comprehension coalesced into sentience. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
The yawning chasm, filled with emptiness and the puerile meanderings of sentience. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
The subtle body is the combination of an individual physical faculty for sentience. From Wordnik.com. [Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Philosophy] Reference
It was a starship; a living creature, or a machine which had evolved into sentience. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
The only choice was whether Rainbow was machine or bizarre sentience, dead or living. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
Imagine: a stable necrosis, where the only sentience in the High Beyond is the Blight. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Does some aspect of awareness, of sentience, continue after the body ceases to function?. From Wordnik.com. [Kamran Pasha: Exploring the Stanley Hotel with The Ghost Hunters] Reference
Therefore, the synthesis of intelligent behavior also becomes the simulation of sentience. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The stone, though itself unthinking, recognized his sentience, and it rejected him as dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
While somewhere in the nether world, my bailiwick, their carcasses clamour dumbly for sentience. From Wordnik.com. [E (novel extract)] Reference
At that, the other sentience which shared the body with Mayhem snickered and lapsed into silence. From Wordnik.com. [A Place in the Sun] Reference
They have pushed sentience back to the end of the second trimester and shown that fetuses can learn. From Wordnik.com. [Special Issue: How Kids Grow Do You Hear What I Hear?] Reference
Any sentience sufficiently advanced to negotiate space-plus had to first achieve nuclear technology. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Such things simply did not happen in a part of the galaxy where sentience and civilization held sway. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
This is the level of rudimentary consciousness that must occur before even the concept of sentience is possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
We believe that a powerful and inimical sentience is responsible for the eradication of human life on Treetrunk. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
Not only humankind but sentience throughout the Arm would react with outrage, with anger, and then with retribution. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
The long moment is addressed to the material world's "systems and embodiments" for study for sentience and for history. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
It did not answer — it could not answer, it was not a sentience — but it took me out into the charbagh water garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
He walked to a mirror on the wall and approved of the strong young body which would house his sentience and then scowled. From Wordnik.com. [A Place in the Sun] Reference
The supernatural sentience they had experienced the night before had passed, and they retained no memory of having stolen the tape player. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Demonkeeping]
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