The relationship between cognitive abilites and sentience isn't clear at all. This is partially because sentience is about the ability to experience, and so fa

The relationship between cognitive abilites and sentience isn't clear at all. This is partially because sentience is about the ability to experience, and so far, we can only experience that from the inside, not be confident at measuring it from the outside. I would say that most people think they're related to each other - that if a creature is stupid enough, it becomes hard to believe that they have an inner life, and it's hard to imagine an obviously cognitively powerful creature that we wouldn't assume has an inner life. But still, they may be entirely separate phenomenon, especially if we're talking about outlier cases like AI.