Aug 16, 2022
I agree with you, up to a point. I think "sentience is as sentience is". You may think a machine is sentient, and I would agree. I may think it is not, and that will be true for me. Words and sentences in natural language are not worthy of scientific truth outside of their ability to convey information neocortex to neocortex...which always depends on further predication context. Never ending. That is the science we now have, and many of us have had for fifty years or more: I try never to argue except from self-evident truth. If everybody agrees something is sentient, it is true for everybody. If not, it is not true for everybody or perhaps anybody, but you have to ask.
