Thanks for highlighting this most significant topic regarding sentience. The heart is the primary balancing centre in the human energy system and is where thought and feeling can be bonded lovingly. Emotions are much more than just a compass, they connect in to the magnetic essence in creation which literally causes attraction and repulsion of events and phenomena from us. Our universe is far from a dead/dumb 'space' it is actually life itself and quite capable of intelligently meeting our desires when we align in that way. <3