Conscious, or at least sentience is just the meta system that allows one to mesh multiple sensory input (all of which is generated by the brain itself, maybe us

Conscious, or at least sentience is just the meta system that allows one to mesh multiple sensory input (all of which is generated by the brain itself, maybe using some real information). Whether AI needs consciousness is a totally separate question. LLMs are the great Chinese room, I'd say they have unconscious understanding, the distinction is like c vs list and similarly meaningless but may become meaningful in a constrained self-learning robotics context. AI will never need to be conscious, AI isn't a moth flying to an open flame, but people will try anyway