Originally Posted by Parihaka

Actually I'm going for this definition more

sentient
adj 1: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's
stage"- T.E.Lawrence [syn: animate] [ant: insentient]
2: consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load";
"a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of
sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.]
Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient
extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs
or tissues.

Sentient \Sen"ti*ent\, n.
One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.