Sentiency is the experience of having an outer world around us. This is the experience of being inside a body and looking outwards and seeing life all around us. This is our most basic experience of being alive.
Awareness is the experience of being a body. The one constant in our life is our body. Our body has needs and these needs must be met. This is not negotiable. The history of mankind is the history of the many different ways that humans have met the needs of their bodies. What is unique about our modern times is that we have come up with quick and efficient ways to meet these physical needs. This has given us free time to focus on other things and to get into trouble.
If you go to a dictionary and look up the word consciousness you are likely to see it defined as awareness. The words consciousness and awareness have become synonymous in many people’s minds. But now we have become aware of other forms of consciousness which are different than what we mean by awareness.
Sentiency is the consciousness we use in the outer realm of our life.
