the literary devicesentimentality, which is used to induce an emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally unthinking feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgment
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Sentience is a by-product of the complexity required for the ability to self-evolve.
To self-evolve, there must be some sort of sentience or self-awareness (in other words, there must be a "direction" that is present that tells an organism its status in relation to its environment).
Sentience is a by-product of (the complexity required for) the trait of self-evolution.
Many scientists today consider sentience to be exclusive to homo-sapiens.This may be due to many religions that see the human being as the central creation of god, and thus the only creature capable of "truly thinking" (create art, use tools, invent things, etc..), and by the concept of sentience coming from a soul.