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Your definition of "sentience" appears to be "optimization". I'm not sure many philosophers will agree with you, but it's a valid stand-point I guess. But imh
by radarsat1 4y ago
Your definition of "sentience" appears to be "optimization". I'm not sure many philosophers will agree with you, but it's a valid stand-point I guess. But imho just defining things this way doesn't really add anything to the discussion, it just makes it about semantics.
(Which I suppose in some sense the discussion is fundamentally about semantics, what does sentience even mean, but I think most people would agree that it refers to something a little beyond your definition here. Redefining it away does not solve the issue.)
- bioemerl 4y ago> Your definition of "sentience" appears to be "optimization" My definition of sentience was given in my comment. It isn't optimization, it's: * Self awareness. Some level of ability to understand what you are and how you work. * Emergent emotion. Displays of things like fear and happiness. It isn't semantics, it's real behavior. Being a self optimizer leads to those two things. Sentience isn't optimization, but to be able to self optimize leads to sentience.