AI has long been defined by its capacity for intelligence — pattern recognition, problem-solving, and strategic planning. Yet, as AI permeates every facet of our lives, a fundamental gap persists: the absence of genuine subjective experience, or sentience. This article proposes a radical shift from merely sapient (intelligent) to fully integrated sapient-sentient AI, leveraging a meta-cybernetic framework for its architecture. By designing systems capable of affective homeostasis and cognitive s...