But I do not believe in it as a sentient force.
Cosmonaut Donatas Banionis is sent to a space station on the mysterious planet Solaris to investigate why most of the crew have died, and finds the whole planet is a sentient force mirroring human desires.
Unlike cars, though, the flow of electricity through our brains is not driven by some sentient force with will or intent.
The Force is sentient and has an awareness of when people's greed and lust for power has pushed it out of balance, so it creates what it needs to set the universe right again.
(Please can characters in this sort of novel stop buying old wrecks which are "sentient, almost" because "the life force of the previous inhabitants had seeped into the raw materials of the house", etc?) Still, it improves as it progresses and the climax is genuinely surprising.
The great god market forces has become a sentient being that feels excited or depressed and whose behaviour has been manipulated by corporate practices and the criminally minded.
Math An introduction to addition and subtraction using a textbook so old that it still refers to things like floppy disks and clocks with hands, which inevitably leads to hours of explaining the past to a child who thinks the iPad is a sentient member of the family and forces you to grapple with the incredible speed at which you have aged.
Pre-modern peoples have to be persuaded that what they impute to sentient agency is actually the work of automatic forces: lightning, tides, the moon rising are not the result of gods or demons working their will but just things that happen from consciousless natural forces.
In a letter to visitors to his Web site (www.johnclilly.com), he spoke of a time when all killing of whales and dolphins would cease -- "not from a law being passed, but from each human understanding innately that these are ancient, sentient earth residents, with tremendous intelligence and enormous life force.
So if you think about the gruesome realities of the meat, dairy and cosmetics industries, then it's pretty clear – if you consume animal products in any form you contribute to the captive breeding, forced labour and murder of millions of sentient and loving creatures.
In this episode, BMO, Finn and Jake's sentient computer game, accidentally deletes a core system driver, forcing Finn and Jake disguise themselves as MOs in order to infiltrate the MO factory and fix BMO.
