Lamby

Pain to me is a very low lovely response in the very primal parts of brains. To me, sentience is when an organism can question it's own existence. Maybe it's you that has been replaced and your focus on bird conspiracy theories is a distraction. https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,h_1188,w_2121,x_0,y_142/f_auto,q_auto,w_1100/v1554733134/shape/mentalfloss/78996-istock-682216682.jpg

Sentience is not something to easily define but the test can be done regularly and get the same results. Did birds hurt you when you were little? https://www.hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/header-gulf-birds.jpg

Even the noble magpie that can pass the mirror recognition test? https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/og/75263001-1200px.jpg

I really hope when we hang some birds land near us and we can have a discussion about them being real. Then some people walk by and think we're nuts. http://www.pwconserve.org/graphics/wildlife/birds/bluebird_8836.jpg