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fkusumot said: "Descarte used the word cogito, not sentio. You don't understand the argument."

That as may be, but sentience is a form of cognition. (Cognition: The mental process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. [American Heritage Science Dictionary]) That said, my Latin is poor - are cognition and sentience oversimplified translations?