Knowing is how sentience can be rated, measured or extrapolated. Whatever any specie at any point in a life cycle can know—or an object, with weak imitation—to

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What does an infant know? What does an embryo know? What do gametes know? What does a toddler know? Knowing encompasses memory, feelings, emotions, awareness, attention, perception, sensation, reaction, direction, motion, internal senses and so forth. They are all aspects of knowing. Pain is known, even though pain is mostly called a feeling. This is the same for thirst, worries, fear, and so forth. All that is known per stage for a specie has a total.