Sentience
WordNet
noun
(1) The readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"Gave sentience to slugs and newts"- Richard Eberhart
(2) The faculty through which the external world is apprehended
"In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
(3) State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
"The crash intruded on his awareness"