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what does sentience have anything to do with anything i was talking about.
What does what you were talking about have to do with what you were responding to?
That is what I want to know.
Cat dying > [Instinct] > Dead = bad
Family member dying > [Emotion] > Deprivation of fun experiences with that person = sad
Emotion is not only human, it's the same in us and all other animals with emotion.
Biologically.
If you want to make a division just because we're humans and they're not, then go ahead.