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Sentience vs. consciousness vs. awareness
Dictionary definitions such as this one often seem to use the terms sentience, awareness, and consciousness as if they are synonymous with each other. Is this really the case? If not, how do they ...
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Can artificially intelligent machines ever become sentient?
To those posting opinionated comments or answers (i.e. not factual research), please first describe your perspective of sentience and artificially intelligent machines - this is not the same as their ...
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How satisfactory is the idea that software creates or leads to sentience?
Researchers including Synthetic Genomics have made incredible advances, but in doing so, have also made a powerful philosophical contribution to how we (as ordinary people) view life itself. We now ...
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What are the minimum necessary and sufficient conditions for something to be considered sentient?
The answer to Could a sentient machine suffer? suggests that
The ability to suffer would not seem to be a necessary condition for sentience
This made me wonder what the minimum necessary and ...
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At what point can a being be said to have gained sentience?
It's pretty much universally accepted that healthy humans have sentience, but that's where the agreement stops. Many would say that complex animals have sentience, such as dogs, cats, cows, sheep, ...
