CORRECTLY UNDERSTANDING THE SIMPLICITY OF SENTIENCE VS CONSCIOUSNESS I would cla

CORRECTLY UNDERSTANDING THE SIMPLICITY OF SENTIENCE VS CONSCIOUSNESS

I would clarify in that sentience narrowly defined is the capacity to react (autonomically to deliberately) to real world environmental stimuli and its subsequent effect on homeostasis.

Consciousness requires continuous recursive use of short term memory to review that sense perception and valence in the context of using memory of predictions of consequences and choice of actions and that same effect.

The difference is the hierarchy that results from sensation to perception to valence to reaction (response without choice) to action (planning with choice).

Effectively all cognition is just the time span of prediction from memory: reaction to action.