The living world around us may turn out to be much more sentient, aware and connected than we have allowed ourselves to believe.
Instead, recent injuries to pretty much every sentient lifeform with any connection to the Chicago Bulls have made it obvious that the Hawks and the Cavaliers are the only legitimate NBA Finals teams in the woeful Eastern Conference barring an out-of-nowhere run of dominance by the Toronto Raptors (currently the No5 seed) or the Washington Wizards (No6).
Simmons has the writing chops to transcend the genre he's established and maybe even turn out something that approaches his (and pretty much every sentient basketball fan's) favorite hoops book, David Halberstam's "Breaks of the Game," but he doesn't seem to want to.
In navigating the world and deciding what is rewarding, humans are closer to zombies than sentient beings much of the time.
Before you begin imagining self-aware robots doing battle with Rick Deckard and John Connor, remember that the threshold for what constitutes artificial intelligence is set much lower than a sentient robot that truly understands human language and context.
The Vorrh, like so much in this novel, is sentient.
Throwing in her lot with Milo, a dubious character who has much to hide and a sentient car, Amber discovers just what she's prepared to do in order to survive.
The Flood, which spread through infestation of sentient life, overran much of the Milky Way Galaxy.
As children, we are sentient beings, very much aware and alert and all-consuming, and yet there seems to be a threshold in late adolescence that, once crossed, prevents us from knowing very well what our own childhood was like.
Animals — wild or domestic — are sentient creatures and have much to teach us about our own emotional lives.
