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Sentience is a property of animal life. Electrons, software, rocks, etc don't posses sentience, so the notion that ai which is software may be sentient is nonse
by gumballindie 3y ago
Sentience is a property of animal life. Electrons, software, rocks, etc don't posses sentience, so the notion that ai which is software may be sentient is nonsense.
- thek3nger 3y agoAnimal life is just a different permutation of electrons, carbon and “software”.
- cameronh90 3y agoThis is just extending the "sentience is that which is human" definition to animals. What about animals makes them sentient? Until we can answer that, people are just going to be talking past each other. Even if you forget about AI, whether animals are sentient, and, if so, which animals are sentient, is a big argument in biology/ethics/law that's been going on for at least half a century. The UK recently passed a law that declares animals to be sentient, but not all invertebrates are considered sentient in that law. Their justification is that they don't contain a central nervous system, but what special property about a CNS confers sentience?
- gumballindie 3y agoYeah we are just beating the bush, with all due respect, bordering sophistry, potentially using a chat bot to generate replies.