The Three Attributes That Enable Sentience in Human Beings:

#1. A brain of adequate complexity to enable an understanding of language.

#2. A voice box complex enough for speech.

#3. Hands with opposable thumbs for recording and preserving language.

Many species have two of these attributes. Humans have all three. ㅤ

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– free-will-of-choice 0 points 54 days ago +1 / -1

the need for spoken language in self reflection

To speak OUT contradicts self reflection. One can only re-flect (response to bend) from within (life) a line (inception towards death).

Growth within loss implies bending potential; each one breathing within all implies bending; rule/reg - "to move in a straight line"...hence bending (life) the line (inception towards death); to straiten up the 33 spinal vertebrae...one needs to bend.

a rock

Does a rock feel extreme heat? Does a rock adapt to extreme heat by melting? How could a solid not feel liquid, while being in it?

OP suggests that sentience is based on compliance to others aka "yes masa; me understand; me speak your language; me repeat what you say, massa", yet before compliance and suggestion can come together...the fluid natural order is separating each solid being from one another, hence sentience responding to being send.

I think you're adding too much to it.

All perceivable adds (inception) and removes (death) each ones (life) perception...the suggestions of others tempt one to believe in more additions to all.

Nature cannot add too much or to little...only each partial into whole.

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