Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7657843-20150509205259/@comment-89.102.133.166-20150510165925

I'm not sure about the "grant sentience" thing. In both cases, there was a pre-exsiting system that was at least on the brink of sentience or "capable of running the processes necessary for sentience" (i.e., there was a working or near-working brain or a synthetic equivalent). While it probably wouldn't have worked without the Stone, we don't want to mislead people into thinking that the Stone can grant sentience e.g. to a log (thus creating Treebeard :) ) or other random inanimate objects. How about "catalyze sentience", "awaken sentience", or "ignite sentience"?

"Grant powers" is probably good enough, seeing as the two were probably quite regular humans beforehand. Wonder if it should say "to humans", as we don't know if powers would be granted to non-humans (e.g. Asgardians, Kree) as well, or if there would have been a different (if any) reaction.