1. An Awakened tree is an ordinary tree given sentience and mobility by the awaken spell or similar magic

2. 21 This seminal world gathering will hear of startling recent findings about the depth of animal sentience.

3. Sentience is an objective reality of the world, notwithstanding the problems our current physics and philosophy of mind may have in accounting for it.

4. Blindsight is a hard Science Fiction novel by Canadian author Peter Watts.It's a dark and cerebral First Contact story that deals heavily with issues of sentience and what it means to be an "intelligent" species