I think what is missing from this perspective, is that according to our best understanding of neurolinguistics and consciousness, human intelligence is the resu

I think what is missing from this perspective, is that according to our best understanding of neurolinguistics and consciousness, human intelligence is the result of the brain's ability to "match patterns, draw from massive statistical databases of human language." And that where we draw the line for sentience in the animal and plant kingdom is more or less the level of sophistication we observe in social/communicative behavior. I believe this opinion creates an impossible and undefined standard for machine sentience, that is certainly far beyond our normal standards.