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Yep. I precision about intelligence versus sentience is keeping the waters muddy.
by brookst 4y ago
Yep. I precision about intelligence versus sentience is keeping the waters muddy.
- JohnFen 4y agoWe (the set of English speakers at large) don't have a universal definition of "intelligence" because we have only a loose idea about what it is. That problem is even worse with "sentience", where we basically don't know what it is beyond the vaguest hint.
- brookst 4y agoWe don’t have perfect definitions for either word, but I’m comfortable with intelligence meaning something like goal seeking or reasoning, and sentience meaning something like self-awareness or identity. The fact that we can’t perfectly define either “blue” or “green” does not mean that blue and green are semantically interchangeable.