Everything that can learn is sentient, or self aware, in some form. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be able to learn. If you don't understand yourself and how your d

Everything that can learn is sentient, or self aware, in some form. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be able to learn. If you don't understand yourself and how your decisions interact with the world around you, learning is impossible. Everything that can learn can naturally express a fair fraction of human emotions as a function of learning. Fear is avoiding error. Joy is finding something that reduces it. Some emotions are helpful but not required. Boredom is escaping a local minimum. They just don't go saying "I'm sad help me", and as humans we have a belief that emotions have to be expressed or complex in order to exist. I don't believe that's the case, and people like this guy are making correct conclusions for incorrect reasons. The right question isn't if these things are sentient, it's how/in what way they're sentient and where we want to draw the lines of our morals around those "hows".