Again, we know for a fact human brain cells can form sentient consciousness. This has never been demonstrated with computers. There is a fundamental difference, even if you don’t understand why
Oh sorry I meant any collection of nerves. While I do consider sentience to be possible with any arbitrary substrate, I was referring to the fact that loads of other animals are clearly aware and can suffer. That was poor communication on my part.
Every computer on earth isn’t made out of human brain cells. We don’t know that computers can be sentient, we know for a fact that human brains are
The fact that these are human nerve cells really feels unimportant, pretty much any collection has the potential for consciousness.
Again, we know for a fact human brain cells can form sentient consciousness. This has never been demonstrated with computers. There is a fundamental difference, even if you don’t understand why
Oh sorry I meant any collection of nerves. While I do consider sentience to be possible with any arbitrary substrate, I was referring to the fact that loads of other animals are clearly aware and can suffer. That was poor communication on my part.