sentience, sapience, ........? Orion's Arm calls ........ "transapience", though I prefer 'sagacience' sentience is a given in hylozoic cosmologies sapience can be tested for, sagacience cannot: sagacient entities can act non-sentientially: the cosmos feels, something
nonsentient... does not respond to environmental stimuli in a logical or sensible way: the surface of stars certainly feel magnetic fields. Rationalist sapiends cringe at the nonsensicality of nonsentiends,