Thanks for putting it much better than I could. I've argued in the previous post about the google employee that people are much too quickly at dismissing claims

Thanks for putting it much better than I could. I've argued in the previous post about the google employee that people are much too quickly at dismissing claims about sentience. I find it especially worrying how so many AI researchers are dismissing conscience based on an argument along the lines of "it's a computer program/excel sheet it can't be sentient". It's baffling how little grasp they have about one of the fundamental questions (and the difficulties answering it) of their field.