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by _xnmw 1183 days ago
> At what point does abstraction and reasoning turn into "sentient understanding"?

This is a loaded question, you're assuming that abstraction and reasoning can somehow magically "turn into" sentience, whereas I posit that those two things are completely different. You can have sentience without reasoning (i.e. pure non-judgemental awareness that is the goal of Buddhist meditation), and vice-versa.