Bain Capital Ventures announced The Sentience Company with the vocabulary of solved problems . Personal AI that "thinks like you" rather than "responds to you" — the distinction was presented as engineering progress, not philosophical territory. What the pitch treated as settled, the community treated as the entire question. The positioned the company's trajectory in explicitly totalizing terms — "99% of all intelligence will be artificial" — framing the mind-copy project as infrastructure arriving on schedule. The VC layer and the broader community were not arguing about…