NPC is for Non Playable Cara

Sentience. It's a funny word, isn't it? So very small for something so infinitely vast. We use it to separate ourselves from everything else. Without it, we'd be no more superior than a fleck of dust, per say. The only problem is...nobody actually knows what sentience is. Humans have a strange fixation with shooting stuff out into space, looking for whatever fits our personal definition of sentience.

Watch as a new ai language model assigned by the government to provide companionship in the middle of a post-apocalyptic world slowly discover if it's possible for non-sentience to define the exact thing they are not. And is it possible that sentience can be built piece by piece, rather than simply existing from the start?