The rokhelh saw at once that the interloper was a sentient artificial intelligence- a complex, constructed entity like itself.

As well as humans and other biological species, sentient artificial intelligences are also members of the Culture.

The Hegira was sparked by the apparent destruction of Earth in an accident caused by sentient artificial intelligences.

They are aboard a sentient cybernetic intelligence.

He (or she) claims to be nonexistent, an experimental computer program created as part of ongoing research into sentient artificial intelligence.

He would almost prefer a sentient intelligence somehow surviving on the eccentric planet.

Human beings' way of accessing reality is intelligence, not a logified one, but a "sentient intelligence" that is itself a part of reality.

Having a sentient intelligence implies having a conscience and the possibility to imagine new realities.

Realities by postulation can also be realized in other forms, because sentient intelligence has the ability to recognise the processual and structural character of reality.

Human beings certainly inherit constraints constructed in the past but they always have the possibility to transcend them because of their sentient intelligence.