Talk:Relic of Choice/@comment-162.225.28.86-20200201193701/@comment-24018437-20200207072307

@Nemesis You're confusing sapience with sentience. Sentience means that a creature is self-aware. It can feel and think to a certain degree, but its still largely bound by instincts. Sapience is a much deeper and complex version of sentience, allowing the further use of morality, exsperiences and ethics to be applied in the behavior of said creature. Animals are sentient (with some species like crows and apes even posessing traits of sapience), but aren't sapient because they tend to base their actions and choiche on instinct, while humans (being sapient) have more choiches and can take more things into acccount. Thus, they are described as having free will.

Honestly, the way humans are described to have free will in Remnant isn't unique at all. Its pretty much how its described in a lot of real-world relgions at all. Free will merely means humans can rise above their instincts. They have an understanding of things animals don't, and can use said knowledge for good or evil. Think of Adam and Eve, for example. Basic biology still applies in Remnant, but I think you're taking it a bit to literally in this case. If animals were incapable of making ANY choices whatsoever, even on a basic sentient level, there wouldn't be any animals left because they'd just sit around and die because they can't do anything, not even make choiches based on instinct.

@Metalic How would that relate to the subject of choiche though? I'm personally in favor, for now, for the ability to give but also take away choiche. Its not the best one, and I won't be suprised if it turns out to be something else, but I think its the most likely option I can think off right now.