sentience

“Sentience and consciousness as scientific topics are pre-theoretic. We don't even have a scientific framework for discussing sentience and consciousness. And I believe he's right. We haven't even scratched the surface on how to scientifically discuss that topi…”

“People begin to really change their own definitions of what artificial general intelligence means, what sentience means, what humanity means, in order to make these things seem more plausible or more true than they really are.”

“So, you know, I'm not ready to say plants are conscious, but I think sentience That, I think we can make that case, and I think maybe that's a property of all living things.”