Might be sentient but I don't believe it has feelings like humans do. The key is combustion and enerergy yielded from food in order to give it more cells that use minerals such as potassium and sodium to create boolean like logic gate circuits that quantumly function like batteries. Value is tied to dopamine and nervous systems trial and error through evolution to quantumly value sources of interested such as graving for food. So is the opposite dehydration or lack of minerals cause the brain to give pain signals which is the store of the electrolytes opposing the charged ions.,(reply>), Everything has a value or number associated with it. Machine learning is mimicking it. I can't wait until it becomes more and more interconnected quantumly.,(reply>), Motivation aslso associated with pleasure has been identified as dopamine like in the brain is a channel of batteries that makes us want, value and grave.,(reply>), Food the source of energy yielding fatty acids. Behaving like batteries up charging cells to promote mitosis and keep them for as long as they are stimulated.