The sentience thing is such a red herring that gets too much time spent on it. The topic is a pariah in neuroscience even, but we are going to discuss it as nau

The sentience thing is such a red herring that gets too much time spent on it. The topic is a pariah in neuroscience even, but we are going to discuss it as nauseum for AI when there's barely any research on its mechanics in humans? The far more interesting topic is not if sentience is occurring (it's almost certainly not yet), but if it is being accurately modeled by a non-sentient agent. A LLM may not have a subjective experience of emotions, but it very likely is modeling some kind of emotional tracking from the input of massive amounts of emotional language similar to how Othello-GPT modeled an Othello board from the input of legal moves. To me, that's a far more interesting nuance to explore than the red herring binary of "sentient or not."