I pick up a shard of glassy black obsidian, wondering if it's a flake left by the maker of an arrowhead or by the insentient weathering of nature.
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The most fundamental is the belief that the world consists of insentient matter unfolding on its own over vast eons of time _ eons that can only be inferred from indirect evidence.
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Objectification of women refers to instances in the media in which women may be viewed as, or directly compared to, insentient objects that can be acquired and / or possessed.
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I for one would prefer sentient mortality to insentient immortality, or, more accurately, to the end of my self and the creation of an unconscious machine that merely behaves like me.
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Dogen also argued that " insentient beings expound the teachings " and that the words of the eternal Buddha " are engraved on trees and on rocks . . . in fields and in villages ".
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Once the stage of insentient, lifeless matter is attained, then " something like the Big Bang occurs ", whereupon matter and manifest world come into concrete existence, from which stage evolution follows.
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I see now that I marked what may be the only poetic line in the novel, where Plath describes a winter midday sun : " an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist ."
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The problem is that it might do so without containing the potential for any form of consciousness, so that uploading your mind into it amounts to letting your mind evaporate into thin air . You will pass from sentient being to insentient robot.
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Vedanta Desika defines " Vishishtadvaita " using the statement : " Asesha Chit-Achit Prakaaram Brahmaikameva Tatvam " " Brahman, as qualified by the sentient and insentient modes ( or attributes ), is the only reality ."
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Vedanta Desika states that Vishishtadvaita sees Ishvara ( " Parabrahman " ) as the only reality as qualified by the sentient ( " chit-brahman " ) and insentient ( " achit-brahman " ) modes or attributes.
