Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. Sapience is the ability to think, and to reason. It may not seem like much a difference, but the ability to reason is tied more closely to sapience than to sentience.
Is there some sort of test for sapience? Or possibly some sort of spectrum of sapience, denoting the various levels of it? Are there multiple degrees of sapience? Do you think other Earthlings might develop sapience (other Pokemon like us humans)? Do you think maybe some or all already are and we just don’t perceive it or can’t conceive of it? If we found out another species on earth were developing our level of sapience, how would we as a species react (I assume this answer will be unique for each individual, but that’s just my thought on it)? Do you think it’s possible we’re the only sapient species in the galaxy? The universe? The multiverse? Assuming for a moment that there is a God, do you think it is both sentient and sapient? Just sentient? Perhaps not even that…? Do you think it’s possible that a plant could achieve sapience? If you had to choose, in a moment which would affect the rest of your life, between being sapient and not, what would you choose? Same question, but for both sapience and sentience? Do you believe we can create a machine which is sapient? What do you think of the proposal that the universe as a whole is sapient…? A thinking, reasoning, feeling universe. Regardless of your answer, assume for a moment that it is. What part of its sapience do you as an individual represent (be as literal or abstract as you like, here)?

Topics: God, philosophy, AI, belief, universe, Pokemon, brains, sentience, multiverse, personification, sapience, earthlings