[deltathreetwo]

Another thing to consider is that "sentience" is a loaded word. You're all just arguing over vocabulary and the definition of a word.

Simply put, sentience is just a combination of thousands attributes such that if something has all those attributes it is "sentient."

The attributes are so many that it's hard to write down all the attributes, additionally nobody fully agrees what those attributes are. So it is actually the definition of a word that is very complex here. But that's all it is. There isn't really a profound concept going on here.

All these arguments are going in circles because the debate focuses around vocabulary. What is the one true definition of "sentience." Sort of like what is the definition of the color green? Where exactly does green turn to blue on the color gradient? The argument is about vocabulary and the definition of green, that's it... nothing profound here at all.

[dcow]

The color green is an adjective humans usually use to describe their visual perception of electromagnetic radiation between 500-545nm.

How would you define sentience in an objective way given our current understanding of the universe?