"Understanding" and "self-awareness" is as much a political tool as a practical definition. Pigs are self-aware, and understand, but we don't give them the spac

"Understanding" and "self-awareness" is as much a political tool as a practical definition. Pigs are self-aware, and understand, but we don't give them the space to express it. AI is currently missing pieces it needs to be a "complete being", but saying there's nothing there is falling into the same reductive, "scientific" nitpicking that brought us "fish can't feel pain, they just look like it and act like it".