Energy As The Essence of Sentience

[Angrboda]

Welcome.  As they say, the devil is in the details.  I suspect you'll have some issue developing a definition of your terms that coheres with other things you believe.

Other things that I believe? Like what?

The principle is simple. If you adopt an unorthodox definition of something, or some concept, that difference from common usage when applied to other things may have unintended consequences.

I'll give a made-up example. A person recently suggested that his view was that God is everywhere, that the universe is like God's body, and we are like a toe or a finger. That leads to the question of whether all the parts of God are sentient. If so, then that would seem to imply, by the analogy, that toes and fingers are sentient, which they are not. At minimum, that points to a limitation of the analogy which needs elaboration through other means. However, one can't really back pedal and say that the toes and fingers of God are not sentient, even though he is, as that would imply that God is composed of parts, which has consequences and ramifications which show up in other areas of theological import. The long and short is, there is no free lunch. Words and language are a system of interdependent meanings. When you adjust one off here in the corner, that doesn't just affect that one corner, it has ramifications for the whole system.