i am on my knees tears running down my face knuckles raw and bleeding and BEGGING people to learn the difference between sentient and sapient
All animals are already sentient. Sentience is base level consciousness and ability to perceive.
Sapient is human-level intelligence. Any cartoon animals or whatever that talk are sapient. Describing them as sentient may not be wrong but it doesn’t MEAN anything because animals ALREADY ARE sentient you mean they are SAPIENT PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU
a good way to remember this is to remember that humans are “homo sapiens,” so anything with thoughts like a human is also “sapient”