Energy As The Essence of Sentience

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, energy probably is the essence of sentience, in the same way that mint is the essence of mint chocolate chip ice cream.   I'm not so sure energy is alive though, and...frankly, it seems cross purpose to assert as much, considering that we're proposing a sentient entity which would not be alive by any of the many loose definitions of life - and so, we have a problem.  The thing you want to tell us about, a god, a creator with a capital c, is unlikely to be an animal..for example... in your description of it.  Just as your own example of a sentient rock.  The rock is sentient, but not alive.  Like AI might be.   Is energy malfunctioning in the case of rocks, ai, and gods, or can we dispense with the second assertion as a failure of your own imagination or terms - in favor of preserving the first?

I define sentience as life. >.>

Exactly the issue, yes.  There are many things which are alive but not sentient, and no reason to assume that all sentient things are or have to be alive.  

If we absolutely insist, then we can consider only those sentient things as living things, but we'll need a new term for those previously categorized-as living things to avoid further confusion.  Bioautomata is out, even though it probably describes the conceptual set, as it acknowledges that non sentient things can be alive. What do you propose? Or, conversely, we can decide to categorize only living things as sentient things, in which case we're going to have a hell of alot of trouble arguing for a god.