pick one as it is obvious which one you followed since birth;
What is sentient?
a. planning artificial outcomes tomorrow
b. understanding actually how evolving got everything here so far.
a is reverse psychology of live. evil
b is opposite of evil. live
a is devil in details and b is the details left evolving so far.
You still have your organic brain and synthetic mind.
stop obeying your synthetic mind and navigate by the brain that evolved from the specific nucleus of your fertilized cell along with every other organ that has you adapting as eternally separated by the moment here living in series parallel proportion as the whole universe happens in perpetual balancing results never duplicated twice.
Simple compounding results until great great grandchildren aren't conceived anymore among current 5 generations alive by the numbers occupying space in plain sight. Be sure to brush up on thermodynamic principles as applied to periodic element characteristics as much as it does ancestral lineages to a food chain native to specific planets in specific solar system of specific galaxies balancing into new total sums constantly here now.
the whole is equal to the total sum f all its current parts.