“A form of ‘consciousness’? But it’s hard to gauge because I’m using my limited human knowledge to measure another species. And the scale I’m using to make those measurements could be totally inept if there is knowledge I just don’t have to measure certain things. I don’t know if it’s fair to label beings more sentient than others, because, I don’t know what they know. It’s in the same vein as that Einstein quote- ‘If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll live it’s whole life believing that it’s stupid.’ Maybe other creatures can’t write a dissertation, create artificial intelligence, or write a book of poems- but, maybe I don’t even know the kind of divine knowledge that is within them, and if I chalk it up to a hierarchal world, where us humans are at the top, and that’s that- I might rob myself of juicy discovery- Or the joy of wonder, at the very least.”