I think part of the issue is the that we use sentience in a binary sense. Like there is some kind of abstract line you can pass that makes you sentient. I perso

I think part of the issue is the that we use sentience in a binary sense. Like there is some kind of abstract line you can pass that makes you sentient. I personally feel that it is more useful to look at it as a spectrum. A lot of factors play into it, but as a society we already do this. The idea that some animals are closer to human levels of sentients has caused some people to avoid consuming those animals, such as dolphins vs. fish, or dogs vs. chickens. No one has put numbers to it as far as I know, but I feel that people/society has drawn conclusions based on an unspoken ranking. If we were to make a numerical scale of sentience, I could imagine that perhaps humans wouldn't be a '10', either as a whole or in any one category. Whatever traits combine to make sentience, it is hard to believe that we embody the theoretical maximum of all of those traits.