April 23, 2023 Geoff Hinton said it well. If you don’t know what sentience means, how can you confidently say that something isn’t sentient? The short effort that follows is meant to clarify as only a first step of what the word means to me personally. Welcome to open discussion. * 1 : A sentient quality or state. 2 : feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought. [1]* * 2: Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations. The word was first coined by philos...
