Sentient: adj Capable of Feeling.
Basically just means self-aware. It is generally accepted [although I disagree] that Humans are the only Sentient species on Earth.
Sapient, I think, means intelligent, as in Mentally able. So a particularly stupid human might be Sentient but not Sapient, whereas a particularly clever Rat might be Sapient but not Sentient, if you see what I mean...
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