>What other species has set up such an intricate and varied system of communication? Of laws? Of art, poetry, and music? Of research and insight into the natura

>What other species has set up such an intricate and varied system of communication? Of laws? Of art, poetry, and music? Of research and insight into the natural world that has propelled us to space? And all of which have been developed across language and culture barriers? I'd posit that such human activities imply sentience and not just consciousness. Certainly sentient beings need to have consciousness, but the converse isn't equivalent. Many life forms have consciousness. Dolphins, cats, most humans, chimps, gorillas and numerous others. What the non-humans don't have (or at least not, in our fumbling investigations, detected) is sentience. That's not the same thing as consciousness.