>>11291456>Most mammals, specially the social ones, pretty much have some level of sentience in one way or another.No, you can't compare an orangutan to a human being in terms of sentience, the same way you can't compare an adult human male to a gorilla counterpart in terms of strength. There is no match at all.
>If you meant human like intelligence and self awareness, they probably would need fire and/or hands with opposing thumbs to develop it further. Many marine lifeforms have external capabilities far beyond a human, not limited to what can be prodded or played with, but also sucking and squeezing, which suggests the ability to create vacuums easily - something humans cannot. Also, the condition to control heat would frustrate our own idea of technology, but I don't see how it would stop a sentient entity entirely.
>(Fire and hands gave humans the capability to hunt for more and better food, therefore being able to afford more expensive brains).That's not convincing - you're thinking in rigid terms of our well-tread modern scientific history rather than the creativity that a sentient being possesses. Or you're talking about humans as if they're simply immoral predators when we've already developed ethics and philosophies.
