Endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness:
— The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage.

synonym: animate.

Roget 375: sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient; conscious etc. (aware) 490.    acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.    ... show more

Roget 821: feeling etc. v.; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.    impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.    earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.    pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous etc. (excitable) 825.    impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with etc. 82; devoured by; wrought up etc. (excited) 824; struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver etc. n.; enraptured etc. 829.    ... show more

Consciously perceiving.