Human infants exhibit emotive behaviors similar to humans at other stages of development, suggesting they have the same sort of sentience as other humans though with less capacity to describe it.
This is just your motivated cognition working. (Human infants are indeed sentient, but you write as if you can cite arbitrary attributes as evidence for your pre-determined conclusion. The methods you use would not yield reliable conclusions in other areas.)
What evidence is there for paperclips being sentient?
The fact that they exhibit deep structural similarities with the ultimate purpose of existence.
I did not find your diagram helpful.
I do not know how else to help you.
This is just your motivated cognition working.
It would be more accurate to say that I did not explicitly cite all the facts that went into my conclusion, as a result, in part, of relying on a presumed shared background. (Sentience is related to behavior and the causes of behavior, and humans of all stages of development have similar neural structures involved in the causation of their behavior.)
What evidence is there for paperclips being sentient?
The fact that they exhibit deep structural similarities with the ultimate purpose of existence.
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Update: This post has also been superseded - new comments belong in the latest thread.
The second thread has now also exceeded 500 comments, so after 42 chapters of MoR it's time for a new thread.
From the first thread: