[lordnacho]

But that's purely a matter of having sensors?

Stick a camera and a touch sensor on the machine, now it is experiencing the world.

Besides that, there is a lot of value in redigested experience. Quite a lot of history is only really examined in a larger context, where the person describing it cannot have experienced all the original events.

[keiferski]

Is a human life, as experienced firsthand, the same as a first person camera recording it?

[lordnacho]

No, it's the same as a camera recording it and digesting it.

[keiferski]

A camera has thoughts? An interior life? Friends?

[lordnacho]

That's the digestion part, yes. It won't have friends because it isn't human, but it actually does have an interior life, aka a global workspace.