I think we are back in the era of Humorism when it comes to an understanding of organic sentience. All effort to describe the mechanism of how humors related t

I think we are back in the era of Humorism when it comes to an understanding of organic sentience. All effort to describe the mechanism of how humors related to disease was doomed to fail. If we have no real understanding of how our own brains produce sentience, we won’t get far trying to reason about AI sentience. We could build a sentience by accident in a training process not entirely unlike the the optimization of evolution. Deciding if we have or haven’t is going to be entirely subjective without a comprehensive theory that explains our own sentience, the only one we can be sure exists.