Read the dictionary definition of sentience. All definitions for this word.
1. the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
1. gave sentience to slugs and newts
2. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
1. in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
3. state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
1. the crash intruded on his awareness