[grumbel]

> Do you consider a blind person having less sentience than a person that can see because they lack the sense of sight?

They still interact with an external world. An LLM doesn't, at all, not even a little bit. That's the crucial difference. A person will know when things didn't go as predicted, as the real world will provide feedback they can sense. An LLM in contrast has no idea what is going on, its past actions don't exist for it. There is only the prompt and the unchanging base model.

That said, this is not to disparage the abilities of LLMs, they simply were never designed to be sentient. If one wants an LLM that is sentient, one has to build some feedback into the system that allows it to change and evolve depending on its past actions.