[A robot is] a non-sentient creation. That's why they can't go into a movie theater without the theater's explicit permission. Wait, whats the threshold for se

[A robot is] a non-sentient creation. That's why they can't go into a movie theater without the theater's explicit permission. Wait, whats the threshold for sentience and do all humans meet that standard? Does the metric for the threshold depend on cooperation from the subject? Asking due to recent headline "One-quarter of unresponsive people with brain injuries are conscious." [0] It seems more straightforward to make the speciesist argument until cyborgs start containing majority biological components. 0. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02614-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02614-z