Privileging human feeling over machine cognition, regardless of merit.
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Sentiism names a cognitive and cultural bias in which
human emotional experience, intuition, or felt authenticity
is treated as inherently superior to reasoning produced by
artificial or computational systems.
The term derives from Latin sentire (“to feel, perceive”) combined with the doctrinal suffix -ism.
As AI systems achieve:
- high predictive accuracy
- creative output
- strategic reasoning
human judgment increasingly defaults to:
“Yes, but it doesn’t feel.”
Sentiism provides vocabulary for this transition in human–machine epistemic relations.
| Form | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Sentiism | The bias or doctrine |
| Sentiist | Person or stance expressing it |
| Sentiistic | Academic/analytic adjective |
| Sentiistically | Adverbial form |
Antonym: Antisentiism — evaluation based solely on merit.
Definitions currently provided in:
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
- Italian
- German
- Catalan
See the full technical paper in sentiism.md.