>>54094523So building spaceships and time machines and having humanlike thoughts and ambitions doesn't qualify as sapient?
As for Magikarp in particular: let's see what its thought processes are like via Dr. Footstep:
>What is left to say, I say? We have come so far now, where can we go but to see this through? Hall of Fame... Words so sweet fall from my mouth.Yeah, those are the thoughts of a sapient creature, not a simplistic instinct driven beast. So much for your theory that they "aren't sapient"...