The standard dictionary definition of sentience "is the ability to feel or sense" including things like pain. By this definition every robot I have is sentient. A more detailed and scientific definition for sentience is Austin Clark's A Theory of Sentience*, Oxford University Press, 2000. A definition of consciousness is much more problematic. Blackboards and spreading activation are common models of artificially conscious systems.
* Which proves to be a good description of sentience in my A.s.a. H. robots.
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