"pseudosentience" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Gavin G. Smith, Veteran, Orion",
          "text": "It doesn't matter if they are information forms that have developed pseudosentience and taken on the identity of our cultural icons, or if they are aliens, or as you say just a hallucination tickling the old religious gene. All that matters is how we respond to them, what we choose to do with them.",
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          "text": "[…] pseudosentience in human brains. First, there is the pseudosentience present in the right hemisphere.",
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          "text": "He had even tried to convince himself that the whispers weren't real, that he was imagining a pseudosentience in the artifacts he held.",
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