Sentience

"Sentience refers to the ability to have positive and negative experiences caused by external affectations to our body or to sensations within our body." (animal-ethics.org, r. June, 2023). -

Hard to say. Also, "sentience" means the ability to respond to outside stimuli. (Bevan Findlay, June 2023.) --- agency, intelligence, sapience, wisdom, observer, awareness, self-awareness, locus, psychology