These are all reasonable statements! I don’t doubt that it’s possible for a human-engineered thinking machine to develop a subjective self-experience. It just

These are all reasonable statements! I don’t doubt that it’s possible for a human-engineered thinking machine to develop a subjective self-experience. It just seems clear to me that, if such a scenario arose, I would have absolutely no idea what that would be like for the machine. Its needs and circumstances (and, therefore, its behavior and cognitive development) would be utterly different from my own in many non-trivial ways. Given this, I can’t think of any logically rigorous argument to support the commonly-made assumption that a given sentient machine must inevitably develop something like the physical aggression or the capacity for emotional pain displayed by social animals which must compete for scarce resources in the physical world.