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    Not murdering living, sentient beings with an independent genetic future.  (source)
    sentient = with human-like awareness and thoughtfulness
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    Psychologists call it super-sentience.†  (source)
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    The Stables are the old-line Als, some of them dating back to pre-Mistake days; at least one of them gained sentience in the First Information Age.†  (source)
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    Weren't we, as sentient beings, put upon the earth to be happy, in the brief time allotted to us?†  (source)
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    At the time I was almost sure the captain was being serious with me, and in fact I spent a quiet hour that evening at the man's bedside, inspecting his stoic face for the least indication of sentience.†  (source)
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    It hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist.†  (source)
    insentient = not able to perceive and feel
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insentient means not and reverses the meaning of sentient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It broke down, it vanished into that old impotent logic and morality which had betrayed him before and what day might it have been, what furrow might he have stopped dead in, one foot advanced, the unsentient plow handles in his instantaneous unsentient hands, what fence panel held in midair as though it had no weight by muscles which could not feel it, when he realised that there was more in his problem than just lack of time, that the problem contained some super-distillation of this lack: that be was not past sixty and that possibly he could get but one more son, had at best but one more son in his loins, as the old cannon might know when it has just one more shot in its corporeality.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsentient means not and reverses the meaning of sentient. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Our "semisentient" erg in the box there.†  (source)
    semisentient = partially able to perceive and feel
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semisentient means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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    Her voice trails off as the others listen sentiently.†  (source)
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    Male and female Glatun were nonsentient parasites that existed within a brood pouch on the Glatun sentient neuters.†  (source)
    nonsentient = not able to perceive and feel
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsentient means not and reverses the meaning of sentient. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    It was the first sentient being I had ever killed.†  (source)
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    And with the same success: as though his presence alone compelled that house to accept and retain human life; as though houses actually possess a sentience, a personality and character acquired not from the people who breathe or have breathed in them so much as rather inherent in the wood and brick or begotten upon the wood and brick by the man or men who conceived and built them—in this one an incontrovertible affirmation for emptiness, desertion; an insurmountable resistance to occupancy save when sanctioned and protected by the ruthless and the strong.†  (source)
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    Through all the steps of the years behind them, the steps down a course chosen in the courage of a single loyalty: their love of existence-chosen in the knowledge that nothing will be given, that one must make one's own desire and every shape of its fulfillment-through the steps of shaping metal, rails and motors-they had moved by the power of the thought that one remakes the earth for one's enjoyment, that man's spirit gives meaning to insentient matter by molding it to serve one's chosen goal.†  (source)
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