TheJesusaurus

Didn’t ask how you know. But how you understand.

Sure you don’t know someone else is sapient. But you treat them as if they are

How do you know it’s not a dolphin in one of their hidden underwater dolphin tech cities?

Literally more likely than a “take the average of the internet and put it in a blender” machine gaining a soul

How do you currently understand whether the thing you’re talking to possesses sentience or not?