To drum a hollow drum, you probably meant sapient.

Sentience is a lower bar, and even most trees pass it. [0] Sentience, when boiled down, "just about" means capable of responding to pain. Nothing more. Sapience comes with the less easy to define intelligence of an individual.

[0] One of many, many papers in this debated topic: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1578