[danadannecy]

I'm not sure what you're asking here. I have no clue where this sense of experience would be located, but my point was more targeted at clearing up that memory is not a pre-requisite for sentience, as the parent post seemed to be implying.

[plutonorm]

sorry replied to the wrong person. I was arguing that even an abstract data structure describing the state of a brain over time as it experiences is itself sentient. GPT-3 et al is essentially crystallised experience. Lots of snapshots of peoples consciousness rolled into a set of neural network weights. Just as we are essentially a bag of experiences, moving from one experience to another, as we are prompted by internal or external stimuli.