User blog comment:Metal Mario875/Mario's Massive Multiverse/@comment-33067344-20180615171052/@comment-32286613-20180618085750

^Exactly, Metal. '''You are not getting the main point of this.

The Black Paint isn't sentient. Just because it moves it doesn't mean it is sentient.'''

Prokaryotes, the first life-forms of the planet, were also capable to "crawl in water". Which means that they are sentient. Are they capable of dreaming though? NO.

The Black Paint is exactly the same case. While crawling on Bowser's solid surface, it was climbing the body and once it reached the peak it possessed Bowser. Does this mean it is sentient? Yes, because it can crawl (though the possessing Bowser thing isn't enough proof as again many nonsentient beings/machines in fiction have the ability to possess people). Does it mean it can dream? No, unless proved otherwise.

Also, again, even the stupidest lifeforms have their own ways of communicating and talking. Does it mean they can dream for sure? No.

Also, you are still not getting the main point of everything. What you brought up here doesn't even guarantee the ability to dream, at all. Sure, paint colors up the thoughts of beings.

And, yeah, you are right about the sea stuff, once something it's drained of its color, it becomes a dead body, that was the point of showing that even non-sentient things become dead bodies once they do not have color anymore.

Though, Metal to me, it still seems like a giant assumption. '''Just because paint is sentient, it doesn't mean that everything has the ability to dream.

In real life, everything that has life is sentient, doesn't mean everything that has life can dream. Trees can't dream, many animals cannot dream and etc.

Of course, as showed in Color Splash, everything that is colorful is sentient, or rather, it is not dead and empty.

The burden of proof is on you, literally. Sure, Toads and people, when drained of their color, become dead bodies, and so non-sentient beings like sea and mountains and etc.

However, the form of sentience is different for everyone. Toads, without their color, are absolutely dead bodies. Sea, without its color, it's also absolutely a dead body.

Toads, when regain color, become actual people that can think and dream. Sea, when regains color, simply isn't empty anymore.

It has colors, which grants life, which means that now the sea can actually be "alive", aka, not a dead soul or something. However, that "be alive" it's relative. Sea and things like mountains weren't showed to be capable of dreaming anywhere, and they are not the same as people.

Further proving my point, let's take the coin and the sea. The sea, when it regains color, it shows to be "alive" again. The coin...isn't, on the other hand. It has no purposes, it's simply just a giant coin. It's not important, at all, we can compare it to a tree (especially considering that both are sticked in the ground): once it regains its color, it regains "life" again, however again, that life is relative. It cannot move, it cannot thing, it cannot dream, and etc. It isn't even sentient at all, we know for sure it is because it now has colors...but that's about it.

You are confusing "life" with "being able to dream". Sure, paint gives things colorful thoughts, however that is relative as well, because unless showed that it grants the ability to dream to beings that aren't as sentient/alive as Toads or people in general (especially if we take the coin's example) it doesn't show that paint allows things that in real life are non-sentient the ability to dream, especially since troughtout the entire game, it only showed to be relevant to real people ONLY.

Assuming that everything can dream because it is colorful and thus should have degrees of the ability of the paint, which was shown to be sentient, is honestly wrong.

Especially if we take into account that Black Paint isn't that sentient anyway, and all the points i made above.'''