You're giving meaning the word 'sentience' by pattern-matching on your own experiences, so naturally if a computer can do the same it is no different from you i

You're giving meaning the word 'sentience' by pattern-matching on your own experiences, so naturally if a computer can do the same it is no different from you in that regard. Anyway, if one starts thinking the whole universe is a simulation, then that word loses all meaning, as every experience we've ever had is a simulation, including whatever you think isn't a simulation. A predicate needs to have two results to be meaningful. If you have a predicate that always returns the same value, it tells you nothing. So if we can define "F(x) = 'Is x a simulation' = TRUE", then F is meaningless.