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Where do we draw the line and say that something is conscious and something is not? When does matter become conscious, or can it ever become conscious at all? If we really tune into this idea, we can find that in all actuality, only consciousness is conscious, and only awareness is aware; and that our ability to be aware, enables us to express consciousness through which we experience the world. We also find that there is a precursor to consciousness — that of sentience; which means “capable of feeling.” This is what makes the distinction between humans and other sentient beings like animals — it is quite different to be conscious than only capable of feeling. When we’re talking about sentience, it is noteworthy that the meaning of sentience in Buddhism is far more sophisticated than in Western thought — it is described as the state of having senses, not limited to physical ones, but also including the subjective experience of the mind; sentience in Buddhism is awareness prior to the arising of Skandha — thus, an animal, plants, trees, and even water qualifies as a sentient being.