Given sentience's open status, each party's definition should not be expected to be given in detail until the discussion starts to hinge on such details, and that is when I gave it.
I also dispute that there is little to no overlap -- have you thought about my definition, and does it pass the test of correctly classifying the things you deem sentient and non-sentient in canonical cases?
Given sentience's open status, each party's definition should not be expected to be given in detail until the discussion starts to hinge on such details, and that is when I gave it.
It seems to me that the discussion started to hinge on that as soon as you claimed that paperclips are sentient, or when JGWeisman started talking about the ability to react to the environment at the very latest.
...I also dispute that there is little to no overlap -- have you thought about my definition, and does it pass the test of correctly classifying the things you deem se
Update: This post has also been superseded - new comments belong in the latest thread.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: