I have a Faith and Associate myself with a religion

Oh my what a thread.

Originally Posted by Fordward

Do you include a sixth sense in your meaning of Sentience?

proprioception?

I just mean self aware "i think therefore i am" type thing. Yes I agree that our critical thinking has made us dominant as a group, but that is different from sentience, or has sentience developed out of critical thinking?

Knowing that "I" exist is not necessarily passed on in those early generations, which implies that it was a gradual awareness of the concept of "Me".

Originally Posted by Fordward

Do you include a sixth sense in your meaning of Sentience?

I see dead people.

Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK

I just mean self aware "i think therefore i am" type thing. Yes I agree that our critical thinking has made us dominant as a group, but that is different from sentience, or has sentience developed out of critical thinking?

Knowing that "I" exist is not necessarily passed on in those early generations, which implies that it was a gradual awareness of the concept of "Me".

I believe it has.

You should read up some of the psychology studies on awareness in young children. Even adults are very bad at looking at things from others points of view. We all secretly believe that the universe is there for our benefit, it's (IMO) an extension of childs way of looking at things, there's an experiment where you ask a child to draw things from another perspective and up to a certain age they will always draw from their own instead.

IMO that's also where our desire for religion comes from, the need for it all to be about something for US.

Adam leave the children alone!