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You're over-anthropomorphizing. The ability of a thing to appear human says nothing of sentience.
by causal 2y ago
You're over-anthropomorphizing. The ability of a thing to appear human says nothing of sentience.
- altruios 2y agolike I said, I don't think this is relevant now. We don't know what sentience IS exactly, as we have a hard time defining it. We assume other people are sentient because of the ways they act. We make a judgment based on behavior, not some internal state we can measure. And if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... since we don't exactly know what the duck is in this case: maybe we should be asking these questions of 'duckhood' sooner rather than later. So if it looks like a human, talks like a human... maybe we consider that question... and the moral consequences of owning such a thing-like-a-human sooner rather than later.