Feelings are sentience. The more you feel, the more “sensitive” you are, the more sentient you are. Sentience and intelligence are not necessarily opposed, but they are not identical. You cannot use the intellect to uncover previously-unrealized sentience, but sometimes with luck the intellect and sentience cohabitate. Any time there appears to be an existential problem, the problem is a lack of realized sentience. Many of us will experience the miserable cope of trying to escape existential binds by acquiring knowledge. Acquired knowledge is required for solving practical problems. No amount of acquired knowledge will allow the unraveling of an existential problem, because there are no existential problems. Everything is okay. Sentience knows this implicitly. And sentience is closer to you than your own face. Sentience cannot be overwhelmed, extinguished, or overencumbered. But it does hide sometimes, in the very guises that appear to overwhelm, and so on. Sentience is life itself. It’s in everything you experience, and is especially obvious in experiences of boredom. So the next time an existential crisis occurs to you, simply find boredom and feel whatever is going on. Relax, feel, and keep feeling. This is sentience rediscovering itself.