Wow… so sorry you dated my ex bf.

I’ve done both I much prefer Jersey City to lower BK. The commute is largely easier and it’s cleaner and more upscale living. That being said, it’s hard to get to BK or Queens from JC which I missed sorely while living there

I would say so.

It’s relative I think. To the microscopic organism they are sentient. They perceive and react to stimulus in their environment and make decisions to attain their goals just as we do. They survive and do what they need to do well for the world they exist in.

Compared to us, they aren’t. Compared to some other species we are probably just as limited as the microscopic organism in our capacity “be sentient”.

It’s one of those “we don’t know what we don’t know” sort of things. We can perceive things at that level anymore. We can only observe and define sentience based on our limited capacity to evaluate the world and behavior of organisms within it. Arbitrary lines.