Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130427061908

What on earth is going on? Unless I somehow completely have the wrong definition for sentient, all animals are sentient! It appears as though sentient v. non-sentient is attempting to separate speaking v. not, but sentient is so the wrong word! What is actually going on here?

Humans are in the category primates which is in the category Earth animals, which makes complete and total sense until you read that Earth mammals is for non-sentient mammals (wtf?) and therefore should not include humans. WTF? I can't even figure out the intent behind this sentient v. non-sentient mess! What is supposed to be happening here?  