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Evolution into sentience

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Given a world where a sentient species already populates, how would the population respond to another, unrelated species evolving into sentience? I think this can be effectively split into 3:

  1. Its going to be a slow process (as evolution always is), but I imagine that there would be some individuals of higher levels of sentience that would trigger the outbreaks. What would these individuals "do" to show their sentience?

  2. What would be the core debates of the original sentient species be?

  3. How would the integration of the new species actually happen?

Assume that the world is similar to ours in our current day.

EDIT: Given the broadness of the word "sentience", I'm defining it as human-level intelligence, where the final product would be inventing, writing (or some form of permanent communication), and performing abstract thinking.

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