Is there even scientific consensus for how human sentience works? I certainly don’t consider myself qualified to explain how I can formulate the process of aski

Is there even scientific consensus for how human sentience works? I certainly don’t consider myself qualified to explain how I can formulate the process of asking that question, if it’s even a thing that’s knowable. With laws like these we would be incentivizing sentient silicon life to hide itself. Can we not be adversarial by default please?