Your goal seems very attached to keeping your own religious definition of sentience unchallenged. But definitions are not relevant, acts are. We estimate what

Your goal seems very attached to keeping your own religious definition of sentience unchallenged. But definitions are not relevant, acts are. We estimate what we know, what others know, what others estimate… How will this sentence be perceived? What reaction will it cause? That is what matters. You missed the part about intent, but it is key to why I talked about a rock. We say things to use our understanding of the world to further a goal. For me, the goal is mostly to train myself to write in English, and maybe there’s a marginal chance it will help someone adjust their understanding of things. What is your goal in discussing this?